searching in Japanese
 

why is it that when I search for a file in Japanese (using Kanji) my search results in nothing but english file names that have nothing to do with my original search?

Sometimes it returns a few accurate searches, but more often than not I just get garbage.

If this has already been discussed, please point me to the correct thread or solution. thank you.

Limewire 4.9.xxxx doesn't seem to recognise Kanji, Hiragana or any other far eastern language well. If you uninstall Limewire 4.9.xxxx and go back to Limewire 4.8 you will get more Kanji based results than you can handle. Maybe the feature to handle UTF-8 searches are no longer in the basic product...

I have another theory as to why Limewire 4.9.x does not return many Kanji results. this is becuase it has been redesigned to connect to Gnutella servers close to your physical (or connection) location. If you are not connecting to an ISP in the far east, the Gnutella hosts in your location may not have many Kanji named files to begin with and you'll receive few menaingful results.

It might be worth a try to proxy Limewire 4.9.x though a far eastern server and then Limewire would connect to the Gnutella hosts local to the proxying machine rather than your ISP's location.