Foreign Language Problems - NOT the "Greek" thing!

From: Pipzuk (Pipzuk_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:01:08 -0800

I have some Russian music on my system, titled in Cyrillic characters. WMP10
is having big trouble with these and shows them up as the strange unicode
random characters.

I can get around this by deleting the offending files from the library,
setting the computer's default non-unicode language to Russian and then
searching for media files. If I then flip back the default language to
English the cyrillics "stick" and everything is fine - until I add more
Russian music, I don't really want to leave the non-unicode settings in
Russian (as I then end up with a 3? "A" drive! and some programs start
displaying Russian menus). My other option is to re-title the songs directly
in WMP10 and things are fine (even with the default language set to
English)but that's quite time consuming. - the problems seems to be the way
WMP10 "sniffs" the ID3 tags.

Surely there's a more practical way to make the thing behave, has anyone
managed to solve this?

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