Problems with non-English characters in iTunes 7.7

Since "upgrading" to iTunes 7.7 every file containing characters not normally found in English (e.g.: å, ß, ç, é, î, ñ, ø, ü, etc.) gets a mane change when iTunes plays the track. For example, a song called "Baião" suddenly becomes "Bai.o" and if the artist or album name contains accented characters, these get scrambled as well. The files themselves also get jettisoned from their folders in the iTunes Library, which causes big problems.

Kasyan, as of Leopard AppleScript treats all text as Unicode pre this you can specify 'as Unicode text'. Try a test with these.
-- Leopard
set x to POSIX path of (path to desktop)
-- Pre Leopard
set x to POSIX path of (path to desktop as Unicode text)
-- Leopard
set x to POSIX path of (choose file without invisibles)
-- Pre Leopard
set x to POSIX path of ((choose file without invisibles) as Unicode text)

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Kasyan, as of Leopard AppleScript treats all text as Unicode pre this you can specify 'as Unicode text'. Try a test with these.
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[SOLVED!] On USB drives, problems with non-English chars and HAL

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I am having a problem with non-English caracters (áãàçéẽê...) on files stored on my USB drive.
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import java.awt.event.*;
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ISBN: 0-596-00019-7
O'Reilly
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I have a new laptop with Windows 8.1 bought in the USA and I'm having a difficulties with Excel VBA (Office 365 University-64x bought in the Czech Republic - Central Europe). The VBA does not recognize non-English characters (particularly "ř" and
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