MallMuzik issue with Hungarian accented Unicode characters

[Gábor Bukta]

Hello everyone,
My name is Gábor Bukta, and I am a visually impaired VirtualDJ user from Hungary.
First of all, I would like to thank the developers and the community for MallMuzik. I use it extensively with VirtualDJ, and it is an invaluable tool for me.
I am writing to ask whether anyone has experienced or found a solution to an issue with Hungarian accented characters. It seems that MallMuzik does not correctly handle Unicode characters such as:
á, é, í, ó, ö, ő, ú, ü, and ű.
For example, the song title:
"Tiéd a szívem"
is announced and displayed as:
"Ti?d a sz?vem"
I have confirmed that the accented characters are displayed correctly in VirtualDJ. However, by the time the text reaches the NVDA Speech Viewer, the accented letters have already been replaced with question marks.
I also tested changing the Windows Unicode UTF-8 setting, but this did not solve the problem.
Has anyone encountered this issue before, or is there a known workaround? If not, would it be possible to add proper Unicode support for Hungarian accented characters in a future version of MallMuzik?
Thank you very much for your time and assistance.
Best regards,
Gábor Bukta
Hungary

[Peter Mallard]

Hi Gábor,
Thank you for your message, and I’m really glad to hear that MallMuzik has been useful for you.
About the issue with Hungarian accented characters: unfortunately this is a limitation of MIDI SysEx itself. SysEx messages can only carry 7‑bit data, which means they can only represent values from 0–127. That covers the basic ASCII character set, but it does not support full Unicode. Because of this, accented characters like á, é, í, ó, ö, ő, ú, ü, and ű get lost and end up as question marks long before MallMuzik receives the text.
So unfortunately the problem is a restriction of the MIDI 1.0 specification.
The hopeful part is that MIDI 2.0 introduces support for much larger data values, which means proper Unicode support may be possible in the future once the ecosystem fully adopts it. When that happens, handling accented characters correctly should become achievable.
I know this isn’t the ideal answer, but I hope this can be fixed in the future with Midi 2.0.

All the best

Pete

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