Language understanding by Chinese players

ariel56 · #1 (**permalink**) 23rd May 2010, 8:19 am

I have experience with Gemei 8800HD, which formally understands only English and Chinese texts and does not understand UTF8, but reads ALL languages in Unicode UTF16-LE with BOM (with a 3-baits heading informing what is the format). I suspect that UTF16 (windows default unicode format) is always readable by Chinese players. Is it true?

lolita · #2 (**permalink**) 24th May 2010, 12:11 am

Depends on OS.

ariel56 · #3 (**permalink**) 24th May 2010, 1:55 pm

My hypothesis is that the Chinese language (at least traditional) requires some kind of Unicode to be read. Is that not true?

That is a link from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK

P.S. 11 June, 2010. I have just checked one more player, Ainol 9000HDA. Though officially it only has Chinese and English supported, it reads all kinds of Unicode, which I checked (UTF-8, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE), provided it has a signature (BOM).

KPAH · #4 (**permalink**) 17th Jun 2010, 3:44 am

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Originally Posted by ariel56

My hypothesis is that the Chinese language (at least traditional) requires some kind of Unicode to be read. Is that not true?

not really. There's CP 1386 which is ANSI for Tr. Chineese.

Moreover, UTF8 in tags is a bit bizarre, since traditionaly, mp3's have ANSI codepages for languages. Since Chinese produce mostly mp3 players, they programme it to accept "standart" codepage. UTF8 is sometime added to provide text reading functions, but not always.
That's my hypothesis.