Rob said:
I have a client that loaded the Japanese font onto his Laptop and it has
changed his backslash to the Yen symbol. On his login screen it shows the
Yen symbol's for the path to the domain controller.
This is "normal". Short story is that you're going to find Japanese
oriented fonts out there that have a Yen glyph at the code point that should
be a backslash (and is in Unicode). Without going into a log explination,
it is a hold over from the Shift-JIS code page, which is a Japanese language
oriented code page that uses a mix of (mostly ASCII compliant) single byte
codes, and many double byte codes to represent Japanese characters.
Unfortunately in the Shift-JIS code page the code point that is the
backslash code in ASCII, and Unicode, was used by Shift-JIS to represent the
"half-width" (don't ask, you don't want to know what this means) Yen symbol.
However this is just a visual thing, and most Japanese users don't perceive
it as an anomoly. They expect to see yen symbols as path separators. The
rest of Windows and any software the expects a backslash (e.g., as a path
separator in a file path) treats the character as a backslash.
Basically the fix is live with it, or try to find a Japanese font that
doesn't have yen symbol at the code point that is defined to be a backslash
in Unicode, or have him set his font(s) to use other fonts that are not
Japanese oriented.
BTW, you wrote "that loaded the Japanese font onto his Laptop" which really
doesn't tell us anything. Simply loading?installing a Japanese font isn't
enough to cause the backslash glyph to be changed in all text. The places
where you are seeing this must have also been changed to use that Japanese
font. I have many Japanese fonts installed on my system and the only places
I see Yen symbols for backslashes are places that I have configured to use a
Japanese font.
Everytime he log into
the domain he lose's all his mapping's and is unable to print to the network
printer. After about a 1/2 hour of remapping and rejoining the domain
everything seams to work fine until he reboots, then everything is lost. Any
ideal's.
This is unrelated to the Japanese font question. You should probably start
a second question with a subject line that specifically addresses this
question.
