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WHAT No Japanese??? Just Squiglies and Crazies! Thread last updated on 2003-08-27 01:25:46

Posted by member 56570 on 2003-08-19 00:01:41


On my W2K system I installed litestep.
I was enthralled till I started to get down to do some work and realized that none of my Japanese is displaying correctly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This really sucs cause on my Japanese (double byte) W2K system I was really looking forward to a new interface.

Well I guess Explorer wins again!!

Posted by member 6801 on 2003-08-25 10:18:19 link

change the popup font to arial
i know the arial font its the only one in wintendo
that shows japanese characters

Posted by member 99 on 2003-08-27 01:25:46 link

There are at least 4 installed by the Japanese language support that include Japanese characters: MS Mincho, MS Gothic, and the proportional versions MS PMincho and MS PGothic.

If those don't work then most likely the modules are compiled for ANSI (rather than Unicode) and not using the right locale to display the characters. I would suggest checking out the native Japanese builds of stuff, but I know even those won't always work, depending on how they choose their locale and what your system settings are.

Explorer, of course, is all in Unicode.