displaying japanese text on English OS

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Benoit Martin

in my windows app, I have some japanese text that I load from a text file
and display on a label. No matter what type of encoding I try to use on the
text file, the text always comes up as a bunch of unreadable characters on
my label.

Are there settings/properties for a label on a windows form to be able to
read japanese text? Is it when I raed the file that it gets screwed up (I
use fileOpen and LineInput)?

Looking for pointers here

THanks
 
in my windows app, I have some japanese text that I load from a text file
and display on a label. No matter what type of encoding I try to use on the
text file, the text always comes up as a bunch of unreadable characters on
my label.
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I assume we are talking a .NET application.
Several questions to get this started:
- What OS are we talking? If it is 95/98/Me, we can stop here
- Do you have Japanese support installed
- What is the encoding of the text file?
 
Sorry for the lack of info...
- We are talking about a Windows app developped in .NET using VS.Net 2003
- OS: Windows 2000 Pro
- Japanese support: I'm not sure what you are talking about. I did not
install any Japanese thing in Windows except loading a Japanese font that I
use in my app (MSMincho)
- The file currently has Unicode encoding but I tried to change the encoding
to UTF-8 and it didn't work

Thank you
 
- We are talking about a Windows app developped in .NET using VS.Net 2003
- OS: Windows 2000 Pro
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Ok, this combination will work.
Let's get it there :-)
- Japanese support: I'm not sure what you are talking about. I did not
install any Japanese thing in Windows except loading a Japanese font that I
use in my app (MSMincho)
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Start "Control Panel", then go to "Regional Options", the "General" tab.
Check in the list at the bottom ("Language settings for the system") if
Japanese is listed and the check-box is checked.
This means you have support for Japanese installed (which is more than a
font).
- The file currently has Unicode encoding but I tried to change the
encoding to UTF-8 and it didn't work
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Let's try some things:
- copy-paste some Japanese characters (Yahoo Japan is a handy place) into
one of your forms. Is is ok? And at runtime?
- Option: from code so this.somelabel.Text = "\u6565"; Is it a Japanese
character?
- Question: how do you read the file?
- Question: when you try to display what you read, what do you get?
Nothing? Junk?
- Question: opening the text file in Notepad and setting the font to
"MS Gothic" shows Japanese (I guess yes, just making sure)
- How do you try to display it?
 
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