Rendering Languages

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How can I render all letters, characters, and symbols for my computer? I am
running Windows XP.


I installed the regional packs from the Regional and Language settings, but
not all Chinese characters will render out, as well as Tibetan Language not
rendering at all. In addition, some heart-shaped symbols and other various
symbols are not rendering out properly.
 
GotenksX05 said:
How can I render all letters, characters, and symbols for my computer? I
am
running Windows XP.


I installed the regional packs from the Regional and Language settings,
but
not all Chinese characters will render out, as well as Tibetan Language
not
rendering at all. In addition, some heart-shaped symbols and other various
symbols are not rendering out properly.
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I'm interested in learing how to set up a WXP system in a way that I can
know what should be properly rendered, so I am definitely not an expert.
You need at least two things to get a character rendered in a window:
1) A font that has a glyph for the character code point of interest.
2) An application that can provide a window in which the character can be
displayed.
Other things also can affect what you see. For example, if the character is
not valid for the current locale setting, the system may or may not let you
see the character.

Internet Explorer has strange rules. The HTML may specify a certain font,
but if that font does not have a glyph for the specified character, IE may
pick some other font to display the character. If no available font can
display the character, IE may display a box. If the HTML is trying to
display a wide range of characters, and your system doesn't have a font that
can display some of them, you may get different shaped boxes. I'm guessing
this is because each font may have a different shaped 'no glyph for this
character' box, and it is kind of random as to which is the last font tried
for each character.

Perhaps it would help if you told us what application you are running that
does not display your characters, and exactly which characters it does not
display. For example, this page shows the Unicode code points for Tibetan:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0F00.pdf
Does your system does not display display any of these characters? How do
you enter these characters in your application?

Also, what is the native language of the computer and WXP. Mine is a
US-English computer with US-English WXP installed. Yours might be a German
computer with a Japanese WXP installed. I'm just guessing these kinds of
things might have an effect on what you see displayed in your application.

-Paul Randall
 
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