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Hi,

I have update to latest version of VLC (1.1.10)

The issue is,

1.I try to play the MP3 with Japanese language in metadata (title, artist, album) and it gives a weird string name or unreadable language (eg. block letters)...This also affect on custom skins where I can't display their name properly
2. Some original music track metadata is disappear after modify metadata via VLC

Other players such as WMP, Winamp is able to display properly. Also Windows Explorer is displaying properly

I try to follow steps on website, searching Google for solution, set the unicode to UTF-8 inside preference options, set computer regional to Japanese...no luck at all

My systems:

Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit SP1 (build 7601)

Some sample .MP3 file you could share to us?

would u mind if I pm to u the file?

if so, I will do it now, just check ur PM

MP3 id tag don't have chartype info, so the info show is usually wrong in VLC (if it contains any non ASCII data). IIRC there should be some change in VLC 1.2.0 but for some reason I cannot find the trac ticket related to this.