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Chinese application shows question marks instead of characters

Downloaded a chinese application and can't get the program to display the text properly. Everything is displayed as "????" or somethine wierd like: "¿ªÊ¼Îª³ÌÐò´òÉÏ²¹¶¡°É£¡". I have the supplemental language support enabled in the Regional and language options but that doesn't work either. I can see chinese text otherwise, just not in an application. Any help would be apreciated.

Member_2_2473503

you need to get the chinese fonts if you want to display the characters. I have no idea where to get them, but it's what you need.

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ECNSSMT

there could be the issue that the fonts are BIG5 or another major format who's name I don't remember right now; its not compatible with the Windows Chinese language. I think the popular translator was called Twin Bridge. Check the download site to see if it requires WinXP with Chinese or any Windows with Twin Bridge.

Regards,

Rupesh Krishna

Hi Knight905416

Download the chinese fonts from the following links and save it into c:\windows\fonts
c:\windows\system32\fonts

http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/edv/sinopc/chinese_fonts.htm

http://www.travelphrases.info/gallery/Fonts_ChineseTraditional.html

http://www.njstar.com/

All the best

Rupesh Krishna

phototropic

Have you installed Microsoft's Chinese IME:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/downloads/recommended/ime/default.mspx

If you run MS Office, download here:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/assistance/HA010347361033.aspx

If not, here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/downloads/recommended/ime/install.mspx

Tutorial here:

http://www.andante.org/ime.html

Good luck!

Knight905416

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Through experimentation, the following is the correct answer.

In the regional and language options of windows XP, advanced tab, Language for non-Unicode programs needs to be changed to the language the program is not displaying properly. In this case, the language needed to be changed to 'Chinese (PRC)'.

ECNSSMT

So from the sounds of things, it was a relatively new program meant to be used under XP... Cool

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