Japanese font in iTunes and iPod

[Tourne]

If I look at the lesson transcript for early intermediate lessons either in iTunes or on my iPod touch, I see gibberish instead of the japanese text. For example I see this in iTunes.

≠Å≠ñ≠í≠ª≠È≠é
≠æ≠€≠±™F≠Í≠¢™A≠æ≠€≠±≠Å≠·™B
≠“≠Æ≠±™F≠“≠Æ≠±≠Å≠·≠¯≠Ç™B
≠æ≠€≠±™F≠œ™A≠“≠Æ≠±™A≠≤≠¢≠¶≠å≠€≠Ô™H≠Ç≠€≠µ≠Ä≠Å≠ñ≠í≠–≠ê≠È≠©≠Á≠∏≠Ì™H

On the iPod, I see the same but without all the ≠ signs.

For later lessons the text is fine on both devices. It seems to be OK from about Intermediate Lesson 51 onwards, although I only sampled a few files. Was this a general problem with the lesson transcripts at the time, or am I missing something?

[gerald_ford]

My guess is that they might have been using some other encoding at first, other than UTF8, or maybe a non-standard font. I noticed interesting issues with some early PDF files as well, but like you said, things smooth out later.

[Kobukuro]

Yes, it really looks like an encoding problem. But you can open them with Adobe Reader without problems?

[Tourne]

Yes opening the PDFS is fine for all lessons. This is only an issue with the "lyrics" attached to the audio.

[gerryboy]

Yes opening the PDFS is fine for all lessons. This is only an issue with the "lyrics" attached to the audio.

hi! I just bought an iPod touch yesterday and I started reconfiguring My Feed.

I've been having the same problem with my audio lyrics.
Although downloading the long list of audios was easy,
I had to check EACH audio if the kana was displayed correctly.
That was quite a waste of time (sigh).

Has anyone fixed this yet?

Some observations:
It displays garbage lyrics on my iPod, even if I switch iPod language to Japanese.
The kana text appears correctly in iTunes.

So I tried this workaround, but not sure if it works 100%.

Before syncing to my iPod, I change my iPod language to Japanese.
Sync.
Then check each lesson's lyrics one by one. (sigh)

[andrejvanderzee]

Same here. Any solutions?

Cheers,
Andrej