[Tip] SonicStage "AreaCode" for correct asian display onscreen (NOT on actual hardware)

[mineroller]

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.

Edited November 6, 2005 by Ishiyoshi

[Ishiyoshi]

Welcome to the forum and thanks for the effort.

I am aware of the area codes you have published but the Korean ones are new to me. As for the Chinese area codes, you mentioned the area codes will display its respective text properly on SonicStage 3.2. However, most Chinese characters will not display as it should once you transfer those titled tunes over to the hardware. I believe a hardware region code change is required for its respective area code.

By the way, you mentioned you can use your MD again. How do you mean? Are you able to view Korean text on your remote LCD? I believe the only MD remote capable of Korean text is the RM-MC55ELK.

[duancg]

mineroller, thanks for your info! Actually, I tried the Chinese areacode and verified that the correct value is 800000 (with five zeros at the end, instead of four). I know this is crazy, but it tooks me a few day's work before I realized that, so just want to point out and save other's time in the future.

[Ishiyoshi]

I will edit mineroller's post accordingly.