Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows 7 Miscellaneous. Use this forum to discuss miscellaneous issues that cannot be covered in any other Windows 7 forum. Sign in to vote. In Windows 7 Professional, neither of the internet browsers newest IE, Firefox, Opera can correctly display asian characters of course I tried changing the character encoding in the browsers's display menu but it is useless.
While Korean characters are displayed correctly, instead of Chinese and some Japanese characters I got only squares in Firefox there are also numbers in the squares. I don't want to change the system language, I'd just like to be able to view the characters correctly if I visit an East Asian site.
What can be the solution? Please help me! Monday, January 25, PM. I don't want to change the interface language of Windows 7 by installing a language pack, I don't want menus or anything to be in Chinese I don't speak it anyway. I'd just like to be able to view those characters correctly if a web page or anything happens to have some.
And as I've already written: I tried to change internet browsers' character encoding options, but believe me, neither set to auto, nor to anything else, neither of my browsers works correctly. Update: I've found the solution.
I downloaded and put one in, now my browsers display asian characters correctly. Thank you all for your helping efforts! Marked as answer by jer85 Wednesday, January 27, PM. Wednesday, January 27, PM.
I also haven't written much about Chinese text-to-speech or speech recognition , but feel free to write if you're having problems with any of those and I'll do my best to help. Chinese Computing Help Desk. Custom Search. They only change the interface and add an additional handwriting feature. You should already be able to read and type Chinese in any version of Windows 7 or Vista. You usually don't even need a Language Pack to display Chinese filenames, unless the files were created by someone using an older language pack or localized system.
See my FAQ on changing the default language for non-Unicode programs and websites if Chinese will not display correctly in some but not all apps or web pages. You do not need a Language Pack for this. Notice that you can change the language of that page at the upper right too: Installation of Chinese Language Packs I'm going to show you how to install Language Packs in Windows 7 or Vista Ultimate.
Language Packs are big! They may take some time to download and install: To hide the rest of the Language Packs so that these downloads do not appear every time Windows Update is run, right-click on each pack and select "Hide update" one at a time. You can bring these back by clicking "Restore hidden updates" in the left column of the previous screen in Windows Update anytime: Switching Languages Switching between languages is simple process. Open the Region and Language control panel, where you will now find this drop-down menu: Select a display language, click "OK", and then log out and log back in to complete the change.
About Pinyin Input. Ubuntu Linux Chinese. Other OS: Android, Mac, Free Downloads. The new language will be on if you log off or restart the computer. You will find Advanced settings on the left side of the screen. Save your file by clicking Save. December 30, Newsletter Email address:. Write For Us. Friday, January 14, Home Language. November 23, Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. Table of contents 1.
The Control Panel will appear when you click Start. The clock, language, and region will appear. You can change the display language by clicking Change display language. You can switch to Administrativetab by clicking here. You will be prompted to click Apply and OK. Ensure that the system is rebooted. Change the display language by typing it into the Start Search box after clicking Start.
You can select the language you want by clicking on the drop-down list. Go to Settings and open it.
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