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just switched from windows to mac os, hav a question about font
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Jul 19, 2007, 07:32 PM
 
I just picked up my macbook pro at apple store today. i love the machine, but there is one problem. when i added my chinese songs from my external hdd to itunes on my mac, the song names all appear to be in scrambled texts instead of the regular characters. what should i do? am i missing asian fonts? thanks
     
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Jul 19, 2007, 07:37 PM
 
That's odd - OSX comes with Chinese fonts. Try opening font-book and making sure that the relevant ones are not turned off.
     
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Jul 19, 2007, 07:42 PM
 
i think it has sth to do with itunes, b/c i can still browse chinese websites with no problem. my windows itunes has the correct chinese characters for song names, but they just become scrambled when i added to mac itunes
     
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Jul 19, 2007, 07:49 PM
 
OK, so the fonts are working fine. Are you using ID3 tags? Older tags don't support Chinese IIRC.
     
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Jul 19, 2007, 07:51 PM
 
http://forums.macnn.com/100/software...se-characters/
Found it. I thought there was another thread on this.
     
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Jul 19, 2007, 07:53 PM
 
     
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Jul 19, 2007, 08:20 PM
 
thank you for the help. so i tried to convert the id3 tags in itunes, but it still doesnt work.
     
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Jul 19, 2007, 08:22 PM
 
Did you take a look at the threads in those links? I'm not sure that there are not some more steps involved. If you like, you can PM me one of the files, and I can take a look at it.
     
   
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