Tweak Windows Media Player To Display Chinese Characters
If you play Chinese songs in an English version of Windows OS, Windows Media Player couldn’t properly display Chinese song titles that are mostly not encoded in Unicode format.
Thus, WMP can’t interpret those Chinese song titles and hence render them with non-literal, weird characters.
In a Windows Vista Ultimate machine, this glitch can be fixed by setting System Locale in Regional And Language Option to Chinese (Simplify, PRC), as the current language for non-Unicode programs.
What about Window XP SP3? Yes, there is such option as well.
How to get Windows Media Player display Chinese song titles in XP SP3?
Locate Regional and Language Options icon in Control Panel and double-click to open it. Then, click Advanced tab to access “Language for non-Unicode programs” setting, select Chinese (PRC) from the language option drop-down list and click OK button to proceed.
Once the process completed, Windows Explorer, Windows Media Player, etc, will able to properly render literal Chinese characters:
In a Windows Vista Ultimate machine, this glitch can be fixed by setting System Locale in Regional And Language Option to Chinese (Simplify, PRC), as the current language for non-Unicode programs.
What about Window XP SP3? Yes, there is such option as well.
How to get Windows Media Player display Chinese song titles in XP SP3?
Locate Regional and Language Options icon in Control Panel and double-click to open it. Then, click Advanced tab to access “Language for non-Unicode programs” setting, select Chinese (PRC) from the language option drop-down list and click OK button to proceed.
Once the process completed, Windows Explorer, Windows Media Player, etc, will able to properly render literal Chinese characters:
Custom Search
2010 •