Just unpacked my S/N 00245 blue screen 6 GB Empeg, installed
Emplode on my laptop, and synced some music into the player,
to find that songs by Björk and other Scandinavian or German
artists have their names displayed without the umlauted letters.
The artist names and song titles appear fine in emplode and
in the information mode on the blue screen, but not on the blue
screen's big bouncing text visual.

A quick workaround would be to display a de-umlated string
rather than blank positions, either just stripping the umlauts
as in Bjork or a German-style rewrite as in Bjoerk.

As a true Northern/Western European chauvinist I suggest
the Empeg should default to using the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1)
character set. People from the rest of the world might
disagree and opt for Unicode.

Hear hear.

TommyE

Wow, no kidding. I just tried it. Apparently, Godzilla is covered by another band named Blue Yster Cult that I didn't know about? :-)

As a true Northern/Western European chauvinist I suggest
the Empeg should default to using the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1)
character set. People from the rest of the world might
disagree and opt for Unicode.

I, for one, as general European (and espacially CE) chauvinist () would like at least Latin-1 and 2 (I don't insist on Greek, Hebrew and various Cyrilics, though), which, I guess, boils down to Unicode...

Cheers!

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
#5196