Chinese language support

PainRack · Post by **PainRack** » 2005-06-02 08:42am

Well...... my com gave up the ghost last friday, and since sunday, I been busy rebuilding my computer and everything. Other than some lingering installation problems, here's something I got stumped upon.

Chinese language support. For some strange reason, even after I installed East Asia language from XP, and my windows screen displays them as chinese characters, I cannot play some files that were previously stored in my hard-disk, as the com can't find it. It appeared that files that were saved in chinese named folders can't be found, and the DOS-name is something like this D:\??-O?????\??-O?????.RM.

Even more strangely, new files and folders that are saved with chinese names in torrent are also treated with the above gobblegook, even though language support has been added. This is frustrating, as my old partially downloaded torrents can't be completed as I can't link to them, and a huge pile of old files can't be viewed now, unless I physically rename them.

Datana · Post by **Datana** » 2005-06-02 11:21am

Have you set the default code page to Chinese? Go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Advanced, then under "Language for non-Unicode programs," set the drop-down menu to whichever Chinese variant you prefer.

PainRack · Post by **PainRack** » 2005-06-02 08:37pm

semi-working........... Some files still can't be played, but it doesn't appear to save them in gobbly-gook now.........

Perhaps the pathway on the HD has become corrupted, so, the com can't find them. Oh well.

Looks like I have to rename the file name afterall..... Damn.