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    Japanese programs on English Win7 Ultimate

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by bertman4, Mar 12, 2010.

  1. bertman4

    bertman4 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate installed. One of the reasons I went with Ultimate is because you can switch the OS language interface. Since I am bilingual, this is really helpful. The other day I tried installing a Japanese language program on my laptop. Unfortunately I am getting a lot of gibberish. See below.

    Did I do something wrong during installation? I was hoping to run other Japanese language software on this machine. The program in question is an older program (for XP) but I don't think that's what's causing the gibberish.

    Thanks for any help,
    Bertman

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    bertman4, Mar 12, 2010
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  2. yejun

    yejun Notebook Deity

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    Maybe you can try japanese XP mode.
     
    yejun, Mar 12, 2010
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  3. Rad_0909

    Rad_0909 Notebook Geek

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    Try this:

    Start -> Control Panel -> Region and Language -> Administrative tab -> Change system locale -> set it to Japanese (Japan)

    Let me know if it worked :)
     
    Rad_0909, Mar 13, 2010
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  4. JohnnyFlash

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    I had to run my Korean porgrams in a Korean XP virtual machine. I would bet you'll need to do the same.
     
    JohnnyFlash, Mar 14, 2010
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  5. bertman4

    bertman4 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the replies.

    I was having some internet issues (turns out my landlord's cat had knocked over the modem unplugging it) but was finally able to download and install Japanese WinXP mode. I have not tried to install that label making program yet, but will do so soon.

    Switching the locale to Japan did not work.

    However, I did successfully load a trial version of Nero 9 in Japanese on top of Win7 Ultimate (32bit). All menu items appear to be displaying correctly, although I have not had time to extensively look at it.

    Again, thanks for all your help.

    Bertman
     
    bertman4, Mar 15, 2010
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  6. newsposter

    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    In addition to the locales and keyboard setups, you are going to need the display/printer fonts.

    It will be necessary to locate and install the standard MSFT Asian fonts. I think that there are 7 or 8 standard fonts. The more recent versions will have the full western Unicode and double-byte asian characters.
     
    newsposter, Mar 15, 2010
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  7. yejun

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    MUI will install them by default I think.
     
    yejun, Mar 15, 2010
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    Yes, the OS and MUI install should install the necessary Asian character sets, fonts, locales, etc, etc. It's worthwhile to verify it though.

    You'd be surprised to learn how many machines I see weekly that have had those components manually removed.

    Even on Win7 machines, the non-US English components are among the first things that well-meaning but clueless friends deinstall.
     
    newsposter, Mar 15, 2010
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    Darth Bane Dark Lord of the Sith

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    If they are never going to use them, what's the issue?
     
    Darth Bane, Mar 15, 2010
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  10. newsposter

    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    whoops, sorry about that..... bad comment, bad poster, no doughnut
     
    newsposter, Mar 15, 2010
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