Media player has issues with unicode/asian "artist" tags?
 

I have many Korean MP3 files that are tagged properly but in Korean.

But N900 Media player just does not read them correctly no matter what I do.
I have about 200 songs. About 15 artists. All unique.
But in sorting as Artists, media player only shows me about 7 artists.
One artists say it has 75 songs but when I click on that artist, it only shows 10 songs which is the correct number for that artists.
I have NO WAY of accessing the songs from the missing artists in this view.

They worked fine in my previous Nokia N95 btw....

Once I change all the Artists names to English, the problem goes away.
It lsists all the artists correctly. But I would prefer them to stay Korean tags.

Any other people have the same issue?

ps. I know how to reset the tracker etc. I do that every time.
pps. Mediabox app seems to work fine with Korean tags.

Re: Media player has issues with unicode/asian tags?
 

Yes, it does. It reads the multibyte characters incorrectly resulting in artists and albums vanishing. It also fails to sort songs properly, ticking past characters until it hits the first alphanumeric character -then- sorting. Even then, it is inconsistent.

I have a ton of files with Japanese tags, and even though they are UTF-8 it does not read them properly. One solution (for the time being) maybe to load a playlist.

It does strike me as odd, knowing that there is no inherent deficiency in GTK+ with respect to Asian languages.

Re: Media player has issues with unicode/asian tags?
 

Thanks for confirming. At least it's not just me having such issue. =P
Hmm, Is there a bug created for this issue? I've never created one...