Itunes scrambles chinese characters

[imported_apocalypse]

So I have some chinese songs on my ipod, on first import the characters display fine. Ipod screen and itunes both show the tags correctly. BUT as soon as I play the song in iTunes (with my ipod connected to my computer) itunes will overwrite the chinese characters with garbage like this -> ÎÂá°&ÖܽÜÂ× .

I'm on WinXP SP2, have the asian language packs installed. This is iTunes 8.0.2.20 (latest).

Any ideas how to fix this?

Also, does anyone know a program that can sync playlists with ipods but keep 2 copies of the files so the songs can be played on the computer without the ipod connected.

 

[akugami]

XP and Vista may require that you localize the computer to the region in question before it'll properly display the characters in the correct language. Go to Control Panel > Region and Language Options > Locations, switch to China (PRC) or whatever it was. *NOTE* This is for Vista but XP should be pretty similar, I don't have an XP system in front of me at the moment.