Asian Language Display

I can get file names to display in both Chinese and Japanese but Korean shows up as boxes. Any idea how to get Korean to show up in file names?

 

What operating system are you using? I use Windows 7 Professional and all my Japanese, Korean and Chinese files read correctly out of the box. Can you see the Korean characters when you visit this page? If you can then most likely the file name had been corrupted which you should be able to correct by reinputting it.

 

Windows only support 1 type of non-Unicode language at a time. There is workaround depends on where you see boxes.

software -> applocale
file name -> nothing you can do since they are not enter as Unicode . You can boot after changing windows default non-Unicode, then convert them to Unicode. After that you can see them in different non-Unicode setting.
web browser -> Firefox and IE is easy to change, chrome hide it somewhere, but these day web browser auto detect is pretty decent.

Edit: You can always rename them, copy and paste from web browser should be no problem.
Edit2: actually you can try look for a convector (w.o booting into a non-unicode korena enviroment, but not sure if it exist for korean. I use one for simplified Chinese.

 

I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium. Maybe the Home Premium edition has a restriction?
I can see Korean webpages just fine in all the web browsers. I can even type in Korean in most programs. Only the file names don't show up as characters.

Thanks for the info. I've tried retyping and copy and pasting but as you suggested, the file names remain as boxes. It's interesting how Japanese and Chinese work but not Korean. I guess it treats Chinese as Kanji.
If you could elaborate on applocale and how to get certain software to display Korean, that would be appreciated!

Thanks

 

Download applocale from Microsoft. After you install and run it, it will have a wizard to prompt you on the program and language.

I used to have some folder/file name show boxes, but now it's gone. Try change your locale non-unicode to korean and see if it prompt you to install anything?

 

Thanks, I'll give that a try when I get off work. Having to guess file names is becoming a big problem

edit: Apparently Asian language packs (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) are only available in Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise editions. However that still leaves the mystery of why Chinese and Japanese work just fine while Korean seems to be a problem. Weird...

update: Changed my location (under Region and Language) to Korea and the Korean file names now display without a problem! Nothing else seems to have changed as far as I can tell. Display language is still English, Chinese and Japanese displays just like before.

 

Just another update. It seems a second restart has taken away all Asian language display capabilities.
Will continue to look for a work around.

 

Language packs change the Windows User Interface and related help files etc to chosen language, they aren't needed to display filenames and text. I'm not saying they might not help but they should not be needed

 

Thanks for your input. I still find it odd that Chinese and Japanese work while Korean just refuses the display. It did work momentarily after setting my location of Korea, but after the next restart, none of the Asian languages displayed properly. Not sure what to make of it.

 

Apparently, this is a widespread issue. I used to see Chinese and Japanese characters in Windows Explorer and WinAMP but recently, I just see boxes. Weird...

 

Interesting, I thought the language packs would fix the issue.