Re: Unicode support throughout EphPod?

It's possible that the Rebuild function does not support unicode 
properly.  (Add to bugs.ephpod.com...)

David wrote:

>I recently made the mistake of setting up my ipod through a network from 
>my desktop to my laptop (hoping that EphPod would be able to work fine 
>thinking the iPod was actually attached to the system even though it was 
>really a network drive).  To make a long story short (details below), 
>EphPod didn't like that very much at all and killed my iTunesDB (no 
>error, seemed like it saved fine but when I went to reopen my iPod
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>Now, I went and tried to rebuild my DB using the "iPod Tools" -> 
>"Rebuild DB from iPod" and all of my Unicode info is gone, with just 
>question marks in place of the Unicode characters (this is what I 
>usually see in programs that don't support Unicode).  I had previously 
>changed all those songs by hand using Ctrl+I with the "Save to ID3 Tag 
>of MP3 Also" checked and I assumed that was writing Unicode ID3 tag info 
>to the files (the quick-edit keys don't work for Unicode.. at least for 
>me.  When I tried using them, they completely ruined those mp3s... the 
>iPod would just skip past them when trying to play them).
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>So really, after all that explanation, my question is (probably for 
>Joe): is EphPod now 100% Unicode-based?  Or are there some features that 
>are Unicode (Ctrl+I) and some that are not (Rebuild DB from iPod) and 
>possible some that are buggy (the quick-edit keys?)?
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>David
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>And now the details of what not to do (at least this is what happened to 
>me... seems logically like it should work, but it doesn't)...
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>(all under Win2k) I set up the iPod as a new path on my desktop, under 
>Z:\iPod (along with my usual drive letter, V... but I use Z:\ as a 
>central point for shares).  I then connected to Z:\iPod with my laptop 
>and used "SUBST V: Z:\iPod" which turns Z:\iPod into V:, allowing my 
>laptop to see V: as a new, network drive.  Then used EphPod, selecting 
>V: as the drive for my iPod.  All of my songs showed up, I went to edit 
>a few things, saved and closed.  Reopened it again in a few minutes and 
>everything was gone.  Oh well.
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