Request: Asian "writing"/characters/unicode support

[404error]

yeah so it would be like awesome if audiosurf could "read" japanese, chinese etc writing!!! cuz it would open audiosurf to asia more!!

 

[Dylan]

agreed

[Saint Louis EX]

Oh my. I can't imagine my friends playing Audiosurf on Jay Chou songs. But yeah, good idea as I live in asia and I want more asian players!

[petethepanda]

WE NEED THIS!

 

Probably 1/5 of my music library has asian characters / unicode in the tags, and I want to be able to play them in the game without going through and re-tagging all of them.

The Microsoft Zune doesn't recognize unicode either. This has been a big problem for me lately. 

[BigYeti]

I basically just want to play my Xenogears soundtrack. 

[djgizmoe]

Yep, I got lotsa question marks for my Japanese songs.  It'd be great to have support...

[lolninjamono]

I'm all for it since I have quite a few tracks with strange characters in their titles, but I wonder how hard would it be to add Unicode support at this point since someone told that it requires an almost full rewriting of the program, but I don't know if that's true.

[Melodia]

I basically just want to play my Xenogears soundtrack. 

If you don't want to retag them permanently, why not just copy them and retag them? Especially since I imagine a lot of people have theirs tagged in English anyway. If you want to play it so much, I mean.


-Lala-

[xairu]

Unicode support is a must. We don't need two different scoreboards for songs that have translated titles vs original titles...

I, for one, can read Japanese, so having to translate all my song names would not be hard. But still, this would create multiple scoreboards for the same songs... worse than it already is right now.

[Melodia]

Unicode support is a must. We don't need two different scoreboards for songs that have translated titles vs original titles...

Two? More like 20. With video game music especially, between the choice for composer (first-last or last-frist), the company, or the game as the artist; and the title translated in different ways or not at all, not to mention ARTIST in Japanese.....pft.

I can't beleive anyone would even think that "two only" is even REMOTELY plausible.

-Lala-

[BourbonD]

Audiosurf is popular also in Japan.
We are expected of supportting asian characters / unicode .

[404error]

good to see taht more people think as is do!

[404error]

push
because asiatic unicode must be done!^^

[Jecrell]

Definitely needed... still waiting on it.

[AbyssalSoul]

Joining the request.

Now, if you have applocale you can try running the game with japanese support, the songs will have the characters displayed correctly but odds are that Audiosurf will crash... as that's what eventually happened to me every time I tried it xP

Waiting for the official support so we can properly see those hieroglyphics.