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OK...im using English XP Pro..proably like many of you out there.. My SS refused to display any of my Korean songs correctly in library.. Since my system is already set up as non-Unicode Korean, APPLOCALE does not work here.. i believe some other people already had same experience..and gave up on using any of their chinese/japanese/korean songs.. I have spent days and days trying everything from registry to whatever..with no luck..searching forums for days.. But a simple thought stroke my mind and ..surprisingly..it works.. I am not 100% sure if this is what makes SS detect languages..but.. If you just change your "Locale" from Region/Langauge settings in XP to the right country, (Standard/Formats, and Location thing..the first tab)in my case Korea, with standard settings to Korean, SS now displays everything perfectly. Keep in mind that you DO need the registry edit AND setting Non-Unicode programs too. After doing all these, change the Locale settings, and it should display your letters properly. Let me know if it's true, or if my computer seems to be smoking pot.

This may seem quite useless for those who are already using their SS well but..i spend past 5 hours of my precious night in making SonicStage to display Korean characters on its screen instead of whole bunch of ????. Extensive search over and over again on this forum revealed areacode registry key setting for Titling in Japanese kana/kanji. Well, i tried every possible combination possible, using Japanese, chinese, korean settings on system locale, running the installer with AppLocale, everything. My issue was that i don't need any of the titling, i just need the SonicStage to display the damn files on its screen correctly! Nobody here didn't seem like using korean, so i had to find it the hard way; installed Korean XP on a second system and installed SS3.2 to see what happens. Long stories short, here are the AreaCode registry key settings I found so far. If anyone can't display specific asian languages on their SS, change the AreaCode setting and it should show. The numbers are hexadecimal. English Only: 2 Japanese: 40000 Chinese: 800000 Korean: 20000000 (what the hell??) Setting AreaCode to 20000000, i can finally read all my thousands of Korean MP3s and finally i can use my MD again.