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Hi, my first post here, so hope it will keep you interested.
My issue is that a certain podcast (chinesepod.com), has both English and Simplified Chinese characters in the directory names.
This causes MediaSource to put a little flat open hand icon in place of the directory folder icon, and it refuses to both display the contents - the mp3 files which have been downloaded, and to upload them to my ZEN Xtra.
The files are all there, and if I copy them into another directory, obviously without the Chinese characters in the name, everything works fine.
Copying the files manually would be tedious, and I would prefer not to do it, if I can get away with it.
Is there a fix that could be applied to Creative MediaSource that will fix this problem?
Please, post if you're unsure what I mean. Essentially, the files will only download to a directory called, for instance ". .. ChinesePod Newbie ?" or ". .. ChinesePod Elementary ?" etc... and I have to copy them to ". .. ChinesePod Newbie", etc.
Normally, there isn't any problem at all. All other downloads go to completely English named directories, it is only this range of downloads - but it would be nice to have the functionality included in Creative MediaSource.
If you can't see the Chinese characters, don't worry - in MediaSource they appear as question marks (?) - but my PC is set up to be able to display Chinese characters under every other circumstance.
Cheers,
RobAntMessage Edited by RobAnt on 08-2-2006 04:56 AM

RESOLVED
I have found the fix for this, just in case anyone else needs it.
In Control Panel/Regional and Language Options I had already installed East Asian Languages and the Chinese PRC service. BUT what I had not done is to Select Chinese (PRC) as the language to match the language version of the non-Unicode programs I want to use. This is to be found on the Advanced Tab of the Regional and Language Options panel.
Everything is hunky dory now.

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