I am currently trying to rerip a Korean album of mine, but I cannot seem to get the Korean characters to show up properly through Foobar's tagging.
The correct characters do show up in Foobar's playlist, but in Windows Media Player it appears as all "?" marks.

Previously I had this problem but I fixed it by enabling (or disabling?) some tagging option for the ISO-8859-1 or UTF-16 tags or something similar. However, I cannot seem to find this option in the preferences in the new Foobar.

Does anyone know where those options went?

There are no options for ID3v2 tagging anymore.

foobar2000 0.9.x writes ID3v2.4 tags with UTF-8 encoded strings (which Windows Media Player apparently doesn't support).

I myself am trying to get foobar to show Japanese and Korean characters in my songs.

I usually rip my songs using EAC. How can I get the tags to be accurate so that foobar will read them as they are supposed to be read, and not as a bunch of characters like this: ¹ÚÇý°æ. Which version tags should I be using? Is this possibly an OS problem?

Furthermore, even if I don't rip my songs and play them off the CD, how can I get foobar to display the artists, albums, and songs correctly?

If you are not running korean windows, I'd suggest going to:

Start> Settings> Control Panel> Regional and Language Options.

First, on the "Languages" tab make sure you have installed the "Supplemental Language Support" for both:

[x] Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages (Including Thai)
[x] Install files for Eas Asian languages

If that doesnt give you enough CJK support go to the "Advanced" tab and change your "Language for non-Unicode programs" to "Korean"

There is also a utility by microsoft to temporarily run a program in a particular regional settings called AppLocale you may want to try.

If you are running xp, 2k3, or vista.. enabling these options should allow you to display almost any character set.

I should have mentioned it before but I am not running either of those three; instead, I have Windows 2000 Professional, and the tabs are different because I do not see those options as you say. I've spent tons of hours on this and I still cannot figure it out. I've installed pretty much all the languages that are available to install from the CD, and have had no luck (I guess it isn't really luck, though).

You can try this component to convert your tags to unicode from korean/japanese codepage.
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=45243

foobar will write tags encoded in unicode automatically. No need to worry. EAC doesn't support unicode. You'll have to re-tag your files after you rip them using freedb. (Highlight album -> Right click -> Tagging -> Get tags with freedb)

You'll need to install East Asian and Complex scripts support. Have your WinXP CD ready. Go control panel -> Regional and languages option -> Languges -> Tick both East Asian, Complex scripts -> Apply.

Takes about 10 minutes. Then for your playlist font, just use a font that has unicode. Like this:


I'm using Tahoma. Alternatively, you can download Arial Unicode MS (google it).

Bouh that's too bad. Please keep ID3v2.3 (UTF-16) / ID3v2.4 (UTF-8) config in mp3tag though!

Damn, you have found old topic. Actually there is an option to write ID3v2.3 (UTF-16) nowadays.