Displaying chinese characters windows 7

Click Change display language. Switch to Administrative tab. Click Change system locale…. Click Apply and OK. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. Why is this so? I have quite the same stupid problem. I experienced this issue first under Windows 7 x64 when I began to listen to music from Japanese artists with Winamp. One day I encountered the fact that all japanese symbols in Winamp were displayed as boxes except the playlist maybe only because it was another font?

UTF8 support? This was several month ago. During this period I'm already through all stuff you guys mentioned here in order to solve this problem, but without success. I also can say, that, in my case, it is not permanent.

Sometimes it doesn't come up for days or even weeks, but It happens again nevertheless just out of nowhere.

Lately I upgraded to Windows 8 and my hope was to eliminate the issue though. It occurred again a few hours i startet to test with Winamp again. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. I must stress that Language Packs do not do many of the things people often think they do. I'll explain in a moment. But first, here's a side-by-side comparison of the Windows Start menu in traditional and simplified Chinese:.

Language Packs change only the system and Internet Explorer. They have no effect on the language in the menus and dialogs of any other individual applications.

Other software companies like Adobe may require purchase of completely separate editions for each language, if available at all. Language Packs are not necessary even if you see "??? You do not need a Language Pack just for that. This is the only way to get simplified character handwriting input, but for traditional characters this is in addition to a handwriting feature you already have in your IME Pad after activating one of the Traditional IMEs' input methods.

This is a new Windows 7 "feature". Windows 7 Language Packs are available as free downloads for owners of Ultimate and full licenses of Enterprise. If all you want are the translations of Windows or Office menu items from one language to the other, try the Microsoft Language Portal's Terminology Search feature. If some or all of the Chinese is still not displaying correctly, the next setting to experiement with is in the "Location" tab of the same control panel.

Don't do this unless you must, because many of your other applications and services may start showing you China defaults in places you may not expect. As I said, these changes are not permanent, so if you encounter unexpected settings or annoying instability in other applications - like Chinese characters showing up where they don't belong - you can always switch back.

I recommend changing these back to your home locale and location each time you install new software unless you don't mind if it installs entirely in Chinese. I was forced to have some fun with all Chinese menus in what I had thought was a US-only version of a Nero disc buring app it was good practice for me, I guess but eventually I uninstalled it and then reinstalled with the system locale set back to English.

Did both of the above ideas fail to fix your problem in Windows Vista, 7, 8, or 10? It's possible that your application was developed for Windows XP or earlier versions, and still looks for two Registry key values that no longer change automatically when you switch locales.

If so, you will have to edit your Registry to change or add a key required by your app, as follows:. Many thanks to Jody Leung for figuring this one out! Warnings: The following suggestions are primarily for applications created in and intended for a Chinese locale, i. If your problem is only with filenames, skip the emulator section and see the section on changing the system locale.

QuickBooks won't be helped by locale emulators. Skip to the second option here on changing the system locale. Outlook can behave strangely if you also try to use it for English messages. See my article on how Outlook behaves when you change the system locale.

Chinese applications developed for Windows XP or earlier may require you to make changes to a couple of Registry key values yourself. See "If neither option works" at the end of this article. Chinese Computing Help Desk. Custom Search. If Chinese won't display on web pages: Let's discuss this easy fix, before moving on to more complicated problems. Using AppLocale: You can use AppLocale to run an application once, or you can have it create a shortcut to run the app with these settings every time.

Compare this to the first screen shot on this page: After installing, the next step is to run the AppLocale wizard on the Sina UC application itself, and create a shortcut that always runs the app using the Simplified Chinese locale settings.

However, after a couple of days the Chinese characters are messed up again and I need to delete the font cache again. Sometimes they're still broken after a reboot and I need to delete the font cache and reboot several times in a row.

I have two PC's running Windows 7 and both of them are showing this behavior. When I tried to find a solution on the Internet, I found numerous other people having the same issue. As far as I know there doesn't seem to be a solution as of today. I have all the latest software patches installed and my systems are fully patched. Last year I didn't have this problem. It only started showing up a couple months ago.

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