Re: Characters not being displayed when language settings are changed.

But I think that MS Mincho is installed with Office/Windows by default

Yes, it is. It used to be in Office but is now in Windows so almost everybody will have it.

As for the original question - if changing the language for non-unicode programs affects the way you see things, the program you're using must be a non-Unicode program. As such it will be using a code page to display (a limited number of) non-ascii characters, and changing the language will have changed the code page in use - I think!

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Tony

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OD20yOkqIHA.1872@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Well, I do, for one. I used it to insert specific characters (using Insert | Symbol) in my Web pages at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/Japan/Japan.htm, notably http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/Japan/Sidebars/Language.htm

But I think that MS Mincho is installed with Office/Windows by default because there are certain characters in that font that Word (transparently) uses even when you think you're entering something in the Default Paragraph Font.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4e2023e8-089a-47b2-96eb-a0297d3f6221@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
So how many people have a Japanese font (Mincho) installed but not a
Japanese IME? You can't type in it.

On Apr 29, 1:13 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnh...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hmm. I can see them. The message is in UTF-8. I don't think I have
explicitly enabled Japanese capabilities, but I do have Arial Unicode MS and
MS Mincho installed.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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>I believe the circled numbers (and other odds and ends of romaji)
> occur only in Japanese fonts, and Unicode and non-Unicode CJK fonts
> have quite different codings, so if you've typed them in a Unicode
> font, they won't correspond in a non-Unicode font. (Most readers of
> this newsgroup probably won't be able to see the two items -- 1 in a
> circle and 2 in a circle -- because they haven't activated the
> Japanese capabilities in their Windows.)

> On Apr 29, 9:25 am, the_hunk <the_h...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have been generating a report which contains characters like >> $B-!(B and $B-"(B.
>> These characters were being displayed properly uptill now. But one >> day it
>> was viewed on a machine with Language for non Unicode programs set as
>> Japanese and Word was not able to display these characters.
>> I tried this on my machine too by going to Regional and Language >> Settings
>> and in the Advanced tab setting the Language for non Unicode programs >> to
>> Japanese. After restarting my machine I also got the same problem.
>> This report is being generated programmatically and is viewed by the
>> users
>> of our application. So, we need a way to display these characters
>> properly
>> irrespective of the Language settings.
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>> Thanks in advance.-




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