So my music files on my usb have chinese characters for the names and titles...how come our fits do not display those correctly but rather just in blocks and squares?

I would imagine that our fit comes directly from japan and will be compatible with asian language characters?

has anyone seen this work on a fit or found a solution? (sorry, not listening to chinese music isn't a solution for me )

 

I find that I get periods/dots instead of Japanese Kanji. My portable mp3 players all display the characters properly. I haven't found or looked into a solution yet either.

 

While the Fit may come directly from Japan I don't think the HU is part of it. I mean since the destination market is the US, they probably thought display support for kanji characters wouldn't be necessary.

Not sure what you can do about it short of replacing the HU.

 

Rename you mp3 files.

 

Adding languages takes a large amount of programming. Also how would it know what character set you want to use? MP3 ID3 tags don't include language.

 

english is all we need for canada and the US

 

The radio software probably supports only 8-bit ASCII characters (fewer than 256 characters, when you allow for reserved control codes), while non-Roman character sets require Unicode. In the case of a non-alphabetic writing system such as Chinese, multi-byte encoding is required to generate enough code points to support the entire character set (~65,000 code points). The world is slowly adopting Unicode, but it's taking a long time. There are even some who want to include support for Klingon in Unicode.

More than you ever wanted to know, but this is part of what I've been doing for the past 20 years.