Installing Chinese Characters in Windows XP Home
Question: In Windows XP Home Edition, only Chinese characters are only showing up as boxes. How can this be fixed?
There are several ways to fix this.
- Download and install NJStar Communicator to read Chinese, Korean and Japanese characters .
- - OR - Try installing Asian fonts using the Regional and Language Options in your WindowsXP Control Panel.
- - OR IF FIX#2 DOES NOT WORK, - Trick Microsoft Internet Explorer into self-installing all the Chinese fonts using Chinese encodings: Chinese Simplified or Chinese Traditional. See screesnshot below. REMEMBER: Switch back to UTF-8 Encoding after installing the Chinese fonts.
Hope this helps!!
3 Responses to “Installing Chinese Characters in Windows XP Home”
I have NJ Star Chinese Communicator and I installed the Chinese software, but i couldn’t see the Chinese labels in the User interface. So i can’t use it. Can you help me? Thanks.
By Frank on Dec 23, 2007
I am having trouble viewing the Chinese characters in the program QQ. Everything works fine in Skype and on the web such as Wikipedia, but inside of QQ, I can’t type in Chinese or read people’s names in Chinese. Any ideas what the problem might be?
By Jason on Mar 4, 2008