Re: [tlug] Does my Japanese Android phone not speak Japanese?

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2009-08-26 17:55 +0900 (Wed), Dave M G wrote:

> [Amarok] seems to have no problem reading Japanese in MP3 tags such as
> the song's "Artist" or "Title".
> ...
> I use Amarok's internal portable device handler to transfer the songs
> to the Android.
> 
> However, when it displays song information, any Japanese comes out as
> mojibake. What's up with that?

The titles are not in "Japanese," but in some encoding that includes
Japanese characters, such as EUC-JP, Shift-JIS or UTF-8. You need to set
both systems to use the same encoding.

cjs
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