Just wondering if anyone knows of any headunits that are capable of displaying Unicode. I currently have an Alpine CDA-9815 which I like a lot, but when I play Chinese MP3's, it can't display correctly. It's not a big deal, but I just thought there must be a company out there that can do it. I mean, Alpine is a Japanese company; I thought they'd make headunits that can at least display Japanese

Jean

 

Not sure if anyone else can read this, but the Japanese version of the CDA-9815 manual says this:

ID3タグ／WMAタグについて
ID3タグは、ID3 Tag v1、v2に対応しています。
MP3/WMAファイルにタグ情� �が入っていれ� �、タイトル（曲名）、
アーティスト名、アルバ� 名のタグ� �� �を表示できます。
本機で表示可能な文字は半角の英数� �＿（アンダーバー）のみ（半
角30文字（WMAは半角15文字）まで）で� ��。
ひらがな／全角カタカナ／漢字には� �応していません。
対応文字以外の� �合、「NO SUPPORT」が表示されます。

which looks like it's the same as what our version says:

ID3 tags/WMA tags
This device supports ID3 tag v1 and v2, and WMA tag.
If tag data is in an MP3/WMA file, this device can display the
title (track title), artist name, and album name ID3 tag/WMA
tag data.
This device can only display single-byte alphanumeric
characters (up to 30) and the underscore. For non-supported
characters,