Chinese will not display in Windows application, filename, or web page FAQ Pinyin Joe. The Chinese characters in one of my programs, some of my filenames, and on some web pages are showing up as, boxes and other garbage characters. Do I need a Language Pack Help Chinese should display automatically in recent versions of Windows, or after you have enabled East Asian languages in Windows XP. No Language Packs or MUI bundles are necessary for this. NOTE This webpage is updated on October 15, 2013 and all Unicode fonts are updated. This web page provides information and downloading links about Unicode Gurmukhi. Beginning with Inno Setup 5. Inno Setup available Non Unicode Inno Setup and Unicode Inno Setup. Key features of Unicode Inno Setup are. This chapter specifies the lexical structure of the Java programming language. Programs are written in Unicode, but lexical. Language For Non Unicode Programs' title='Language For Non Unicode Programs' />If you see Chinese on some web pages but not all, or if Chinese in some but not all applications looks like the dialog box above, dont worry You do not need to upgrade Windows. I have received this question regarding applications like Sina UC, shown above, Chinese MP3 filenames, software from Taiwan and the mainland, even US versions of Quick. Books that used to accept Chinese characters in text fields until the user upgraded or moved to a new system. I also get the same question from people who see Chinese on some but not all Chinese websites. Most problems like these can be fixed with the solutions I describe below. If Chinese wont display on web pages Lets discuss this easy fix, before moving on to more complicated problems. If a Chinese website is still not correctly displaying Chinese characters, you can usually fix this by manually adjusting your browsers character encoding setting. If youre using Windows XP, make sure you have enabled East Asian languages. In recent versions of Windows, Chinese characters are already enabled. You shouldnt need to do this for Baidu. Freeware Delphi components, open source Delphi libraries, databases, script engines, middleware, internet components, communication libraries, tutorials, etc. How to use Unicode and the multilingual features of HTML 4 to produce Web pages containing several scripts and languages. Part of Alan Woods Unicode Resources. UTF 8 is a form of the universal Unicode encoding, and my browser had already selected this automatically based on Baidus HTML header. You dont really need to know about the details of this stuff just to surf the Web, but if you are curious Ive written an article about fonts and character sets in Chinese web pages, and for even more bedtime reading theres my summary of Chinese encoding standards. In Chrome, go to the menu, select More tools Encoding, and try Chinese encodings specific to the region where the site is based. In Firefox, encoding choices are now on the toolbar menu the three line hamburger icon on the right, under Text Encoding. In previous versions it was on the classic menu at the upper left, under View or Web Developer Character Encoding. In Internet Explorer 6, it was under View Encoding. In IE 9, 1. 0 and 1. Windows 7 and earlier, the only way to change this seems to be via the tools gear menu Internet Options General tab Language button, which is really inconvenient and not exactly what we want but at least its there. In the Windows 8 tablet version of IE, the gear menu takes you to Settings General Display for an even more dumbed down and less useful list, and I cant remember what happened in Windows 8 desktop. In Windows 1. 0 the IE Language button only sends you to the system control panel to add more languages not helpful and I cant find language settings anywhere in the initial release of the Microsoft Edge browser. Sigh. But at least when youre on Microsoft websites the account settings gear icon at the upper right of the web page includes language localization options. In Safari, the last time I looked, at the top right I clicked the little page icon and in the menu there was Text Encoding. Most other browsers offer the same options as well. If you need help finding this, contact me anytime. If Chinese wont display in applications, files, or filenames If a Chinese application on your PC is still not showing hanzi correctly, you have two choices Install Microsoft App. Locale or Locale Emulator Change the entire system to a new localeIf youre using Windows XP, make sure you enable East Asian languages. In later versions of Windows you dont have to do this. Warnings The following suggestions are primarily for applications created in and intended for a Chinese locale, i. Chinese language systems. If your problem is only with filenames, skip the emulator section and see the section on changing the system locale. Quick. Books wont 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. Patch Virtua Tennis 3 Pc more. See If neither option works at the end of this article. Option 1 App. Locale or Locale Emulator. Locale Emulator is a free utility for Windows 1. SP1 released under a GNU General Public License. Locale Emulator installs in your right click context menu, and allows you to trick most applications into believing they have been launched in a system running under different regional settings. Microsoft App. Locale is a free utility Windows 7, Vista, and XP. It runs a simple wizard to help you trick applications into thinking they are being installed or launched under different regional settings. You can also create a desktop shortcut or Start menu item that allows you to run an app this way anytime. See my note below about possible problems installing as an Administrator. Using Locale Emulator I have not experimented with Locale Emulator yet, and can only refer you to the Locale Emulator website. Using App. Locale You can use App. Locale to run an application once, or you can have it create a shortcut to run the app with these settings every time. You may need to run App. Locale as an Administrator the first time you use it on an application, but after a shortcut is created any user can run it. By default it drops the shortcut into App. Locales folder in the Start menu. From there you can move the shortcut wherever you want. App. Locale will nag you every time you start it, telling you that this is a temporary solution and that you can change your entire locale instead. Duh. Just ignore that. In this example I used the App. Locale wizard to install Sina UC in Windows 7. First I selected the Sina UC installer App. Locale automatically detected Simplified Chinese Then I had it launch the installer. Compare this to the first screen shot on this page After installing, the next step is to run the App. Locale wizard on the Sina UC application itself, and create a shortcut that always runs the app using the Simplified Chinese locale settings. Every time you launch it, App. Locale will pop up a little message saying that Microsoft considers this a temporary solution, but yeah right its been temporary since at least 2. App. Locale. Sound like a planThen go ahead and download App. Locale from Microsoft The installer must be run with Administrator priviledges, which many of you may already have and dont even know it. But Windows may give you an error message like this There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. You cant right click on the installer to get a Run as Administrator option, so if you get that message your best option is to follow these instructions on installing App. Locale from the command line. Option 2 Change system locale. If you are trying to run Chinese applications created for use only in China, or if some of your Chinese filenames wont display correctly on your system, often your only choice is to change the locale for your entire system.