Cubase can't read symbols?

[Sebastian_Alvarez]

I download a lot of MIDI files from musescore.com, along with their proprietary file format (MSCZ) that opens in the Musescore program. Sometimes I load that Musescore file and export as MIDI from the program itself. Either way, when I load the MIDI in Cubase Pro 14 (and 12 and 13 before that), anything that is a non typical letter symbol opens weird. For example, this is what it shows in the Musescore app:

And this is what I see in Cubase:

It’s not the end of the world, I usually end up copying and pasting the text from the Musescore app into the track in Cubase and it pastes fine:

But since I do this quite a lot, I was wondering if there was a way to make Cubase interpret those symbols correctly when opening the MIDI.

[fese]

My guess is that Cubase as well as Musescore use UTF-8 encoding for their internal strings, but MIDI and the MIDI file spec are older than UTF8 and probably only allowed some 8 bit character (if at all) encoding for string representation (edit: just checked and the spec recommends “printable ASCII characters for maximum interchange” for text… so, 7bit ASCII essentially ).
Short answer: Cubase simply cannot know what anything beyond 7bit ASCII (essentially just the characters on a US keyboard) should mean and how to interpret and display it.

[Sebastian_Alvarez]

Oh well, not the end of the world.