Creative Zen language recognition

Hi,
I have recently purchesed a 6Gb Creative Zen MP3 player. This is a new kind of player for me. So far I was able to figure out most of the player's functions and capabilities. I have a few questions though. Some things I can not understand. First of all, why does it mix all the mp3 files inside the play list when I transffer them to the device? They are in perfect order on my hard dri've, but after I put them on my player they are a mess.
Second and most important for me, most of my files are named in a foreghn langague (I'm russian), my windows recognize russian alphabet easily. But when I put them on my Zen, they are somehow being transffered into some gyberish form...
Is there a way to fix that issues and if there is, how?

Windows is likely interpreting the tag data with respect to your default locale if it doesn't find unicode encoding. The Zen probably is not (since all but the most recent v2.4 spec says if it isn't unicode it is ISO-8859-). For pragmatic reasons the Latin- rule was often ignored and tags were encoded as UTF-8 to deal with locale-specific chars and diacritics. If the Zen isn't prepared to deal with UTF-8 then you'll certainly get gibberish.
Grab a random track having problems and try saving it with UTF-6 character encoding specified in the metadata. That will likely resolve the problem.

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