Boxes instead of special charcters in the titles in my playlist Options

[Scan]

I have noticed that special characters (like a heart, chinese letters) have turned into boxes instead of characters. I have no clue how to solve this. Does anybody have an idea what I could do?

Thanks in advance.

[tpijag]

You are not using a font capable of showing the characters. What font are you using? Might be nice to know what version of foobar2000 you are using. What OS? Or anything else you can think of to help others provide you help

[mjb2006]

Also, what kind of playlist items are you talking about? Audio files? Cue sheets?

[Zarggg]

Another possibility is that the tags are written in a codepage that is not Unicode.

[Scan]

I am using foobar2000 v.1.1.9
Windows 7
The font is Tahoma and it is the tag in the MP3-file so everywhere in foobar is where the boxes in the titles show up.

The thing is that it all worked fine until I noticed this the other day.

[kode54]

There is another problem which causes this. The exact nature of the problem is unknown, but the symptom is that automatic font substitution stops working, and the only known fix is to log out of your Windows account and then log back in. It may be related to installing new fonts.

[derty2]

I am a Columns UI user (alternative user interface),
and in my foobar2000 layout, these unwanted boxes only appear in the Default User Interface native components
such as the Media Library Search window and Playlist Search window and other DUI pop-up windows.

More specifically,
My display scripts for DUI windows require handling of blank lines and large chunks of white space in multi-line tag fields such as %comment%,
and if an exotic font such as PT Sans is used then the boxes show; with more common fonts the problem may not show.

In my experience, Columns UI and its native components never mistakenly draws these boxes, no matter which font is used.

This post has been edited by derty2: Jun 10 2012, 02:57

[neothe0ne]

This hasn't happened to me in a long time, but I've experienced it before - it's a Windows(7)-wide issue, not just foobar2000 (Columns UI vs Default UI has nothing to do with it). My only fix at the time was to keep restarting Windows until the characters showed up again (specifically, Korean characters).

This post has been edited by neothe0ne: Jun 10 2012, 05:01

[randal1013]

^i have the same problem. sometimes my rating stars show up as boxes and i have to reboot to fix it.

[Scan]

Thanks for the replys.

I rebooted after updating windows and the problem were solved, only for a while though. So I suspect it was an Windows 7-issue.

[kode54]

Reboot is unnecessary, you just need to log out and back in. Possibly all accounts, if multiple users are logged in.