IPod Cover Flow can't handle ligatures.

While the iPod Albums menu can display Tool's Ænima properly, in the Cover Flow screen this album comes out as nima. Has anyone else noticed similar mis-renderings with ligatures or accented characters?
tt2

GLNHP wrote:
tt2 - I do not have anything with diacriticals, but I have several artists with accented letters (Blue Öyster Cult, for instance) that appear fine in Cover Flow.
Yes, I have no problems with Blue Öyster Cult or Motörhead either. I've just tested the group - *Æ æ Œ œ Ǽ ǽ*. All displayed fine in Artist, Albums, Now Playing and Search menus but these two, *Æ Œ*, didn't show up when part of an album title in Cover Flow... For completeness I went on to test them as part of a playlist title or artist name and, go figure! they all displayed correctly everywhere. Putting things back as they were before I started testing and I'm back at square one - the title Ænima is displayed as nima. I can live with calling it Aenima but it's an odd bug that's for sure.
tt2

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Sorry, I should have been more specific. After posting this, I realize that on the iPod, all the "Unknown Album" songs are put at the end of the cover flow in Various Artists - Unknown Album rather than cluttering up the cover flow. This will work for me. On iTunes, however, it still clutters up cover flow. I find it odd that iPod cover flow and iTunes cover flow act differently.

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