IPOD Note Format problems (Using Replace Pioneer) and Number of Notes Limit?

Question

Hello, I have Ipod Nano and some of my notes contain Japanese characters so i have to use some kind of encoding. So I used UTF-8 but when I do this random symbols get inserted OR quotation marks become symbol or the japanese characters themselves become symbols. I use Replace Pioneer to split my text files into smaller ones but when I split it the first segment is perfect with no errors but from 2nd segment on, it becomes wack. Is there a way to fix this?

Also, is there a limit not only on the 4kb limit rule but also the amount of notes I can have in there?

Answer 1

I guess following is the reason.

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If you use an utf-8 file created by Microsoft Notepad, it will have a 3-bytes BOM signature at the top of the file, the file is like:

\xFE\xBB\xBFxxxxxxx

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

xxxxxxxxxxxxx

So when Replace Pioneer split it to many files, only the first file contain BOM signature, the other files are utf-8 format without signature, windows Notepad do not think it is a utf-8 file because it do not have BOM signature.

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The solution is to batch add BOM for other files.

here is a link telling you "How to batch add utf8 BOM of many files?"

http://www.mind-pioneer.com/services/con...

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For your last question, I am not sure what is the exact meaning of "amount of notes" . But you can also use "Replace Pioneer" to split files by lines or paragraphs(you can define paragraph delimiter)

You can search 'split' in following page for detail:

http://www.mind-pioneer.com/services/con...