US iPod and Japanese text
 

Do iPods sold in the US have language support for Japanese?

In other words, will I be able to see titles written in Japanese with an American iPod?

I put my Ipod in japanese.
Everything will be in japanese.
but song titles, videos and etc will not

So you are saying if the file name is in Japanese characters, they will not appear on the screen in Japanese? What do they look like?

Song titles that appear in Japanese on my computer maintain their names on my ipod in most cases.

The iPod has Japanese as a language option under settings (at least on my 5th gen. video), so I'm assuming it would.

Your ipod will display in any language that is written in your MP3's properties. If the properties artists and title fields are empty, then your ipod (or any other MP3 player) will display the files name.

Edit: Don't really know if the same goes for video formats.

All Apple products come with Japanese support. However, when using a PC to transfer files, the UTF-8 may become garbled. MacOS X + iPod guarantees your UTF-8 encoded filenames remain able to be read.

I don't know which iPod you're talking about, my but 1st Gen iPod Touch has Japanese support, and a full Japanese keyboard.

And what few Japanese songs I DO have on it, it does display the actual characters perfectly.

Japanese Apps also work 100%. But in order to get some Japanese apps that are sold on Japan's App Store, you must create a Japanese account. An American account limits you to the North American App Store only.

Hope this helped.

I am thinking about a Nano....but am not sure yet.

Thanks for the replies.

The iPod does support Japanese, and has for quite a long time. One we bought in the US long long ago (3rd of 4th gen) even handled it with no trouble.

However... Allow me to be completely honest and say that having owned several different players and several different iPods, the iPod surcharge has never seemed worth it. Maybe if you want to have video support, but video support on something with such a tiny tiny screen seems, well, pointless to me.

My husband currently uses a nice little player (I forget the model and he is off on a business trip so no quick checking possible) that cost 6980, holds 12GB, has a color screen, and has yet to fail from being accidentally dropped while riding a bicycle - something that managed to kill all the iPods on first or second drop. And even after a year of daily use it still only needs to be charged once every few days.

Not meaning to discourage an iPod purchase, but these days it is at least worth considering the other players out there.