japanese tag/character messed up Options

[kiriee]

hey when i first install foobar2000 1*, I realize that it didnt support Japanese character but after i change system locale foobar able to read it, but for sometime a realize that foobar starting to messed up my title and artist tag.

my question how to fix this problem, i read about masstag but since its for foobar 0.9, i cant use it. other thing about writing to id3v2. but i dont know how to

[Sandrine]

hey when i first install foobar2000 1*, I realize that it didnt support Japanese character but after i change system locale foobar able to read it [...]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK foobar started using utf-8 only around version 1.0. If your tags were written with a previous version, you would probably have them as Shift-JIS, so you'd have to convert them to UTF-8 with chacon. No need to change the system locale, though.

[shakey_snake]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK foobar started using utf-8 only around version 1.0.

You are wrong. fb2k has used UTF-8 for as long as it has tagged id3v2.

For other tagging formats it has always used the format's specified character encoding (e.g. vorbis comments are UTF-8)