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Does TrackerV3 support Unicode? I have some chinese songs on my computer and they have chinese filenames. Explorer shows them as they are meant to be seen as, chinese characters, but TrackerV3 just shows me several '???'. Ideas?

(I use Windows XP SP1)

Yep, this is a known issue. TrackerV3 does not support Unicode file names. And worse: it will never do, because the language it is written in (VB classic) does not support this. I know it's bad, but nothing can be done about it.

Arrrrr. Oh well. Is there anything at all I can do about this? Even (dare I mention) use another filemanager?

EDIT: I did some research, maybe these will be helpful:

http://www.unitoolbox.com/ - "Controls for Unicode development in Visual Basic"

Manifold wrote:...use another filemanager?

Sure, I'd try a Chinese one

Thanks for the link... I'll see into it.

Well, I checked it: Unitoolbox might work, but -- apart from it being way too expensive -- I never ever use 3rd party products (learnt that the hard way ). So, it's a drag but: no Chinese for TrackerV3 (or vice versa).

Aww, crap. Oh well. I'll search for some lightweight Unicode Filemanager, just for my music files then. I'm sticking to TrackerV3 for the rest.

EDIT: What if I found a freeware, opensource equivalent? Would you use it then?

Manifold wrote:What if I found a freeware, opensource equivalent? Would you use it then?

Well, I won't stop you, thanks!

Yaha. -cackles and wanders off in search for the elusive tool-

Here's a taster, I hope it helps:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;193540 : "This article demonstrates how to read a Unicode string from a Unicode text file and display the string on a Visual Basic form."

http://www.mvps.org/vb/hardcore/html/whatisunicode.htm : Concerns Unicode and Visual Basic. I don't understand it enough to summarise, but it might be helpful.

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/forum ... 00014.html : "Visual Basic does not natively support this data-type, so it relies on a "kludge" to pass the correct data." Hmmm. Looks good.

http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=3278 : "Have you ever wondered of using any language characters other than English in Your Visual Basic Project? ? Its now possible using UNICODE"

Thanks Manifold, looks very interesting! I won't have time this month, but I'll give it check ASAP.

It's my pleasure to help a good program/mer.

Manifold wrote:Here's a taster, I hope it helps: ...

Hi Manifold,

I looked into it and now I'm even surer than before that Unicode will not happen in TV3. While it's theoretically possible to do it with VB (good to know!), it would practically mean to rewrite the whole app from zero, which I certainly will not do.

But thanks for trying!
Don

Arrr. Oh well. It was worth a shot. Thanks for trying, anyway.

Just speaking theoretically here; if you were to rewrite the code of TV3 to support unicode, will the speed of the original still be in the new?

I would think it would be slightly slower. But after the time I would have finished that job, computers will be 4 times faster than now...

What's the status & plans re: FULL Unicode Support in XY?
Thx,
--Neta