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  • #23050

    yani
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    It seems as though my computer no longer wants to display Japanese characters….sometimes.
    I’ll give a few picture examples as it’s sort of cumbersome to explain:

    http://tinyurl.com/bvvg3cw
    http://tinyurl.com/ca83txa
    http://tinyurl.com/c9yz54n
    http://tinyurl.com/cgtox8f

    As you can see it displays the websites fine but when it comes to the computer having to display it, it seems to be a problem. When I use the IME in the web browser it will show only what I’m typing and not any of the optional alternatives. However it doesn’t work that way in notepad, when I type there all I get are rectangles. It will display the optional alternatives only if I have selected them and it takes place of the original hiragana like it normally would.

    I have uninstalled/ reinstalled the Google IME (that I have always used, with no prior issue) and speaking of, googling this issue didn’t really help either. :(

    Any help?

    #23064

    ルイ
    Member

    If it worked before, then I think it’s safe to assume you broke it somehow!

    Do you remember when it started showing rectangles? Did you install a program, change computer settings, etc.?

    #23065

    Luke
    Member

    This also happens to me sometimes, very rarely. I think it’s some sort of bug with Windows 7. It goes away when I restart.

    #23071

    yani
    Member

    Restarting fixed it, doh. Thanks Yggbert.

    #23072

    Joel
    Member

    Aye, the general rule of thumb is to reboot first, since that typically does the trick in Windows. Reinstalling comes way down the list of likely solutions, and I’ve never been at all sure of why people often try it first.

    #23084

    For anyone who’s watched The IT Crowd: “Have you tried turning it off and on again?”
    ;)

    #23085

    zeldaskitten
    Member

    LOVE IT Crowd! :)

    =^..^=
    #24195

    Jessica
    Member

    Larissa,

    Did you try changing your computer’s locale to Japanese? Doing this usually solves all those kinds of problems (Although occasionally \ (backslash) characters may occasionally come up as ¥ symbols after doing this due to the relationship between ASCII latin character encoding and JIS/Shift JIS Japanese character encoding, that’s the only real side effect of doing this, your system will otherwise remain in English). In windows 7, to do this, you…

    Click the start button (Windows Flag on bottom left of taskbar)>Control Panel

    For Category view:
    Click Clock, Language, and Region>Region & Language
    For Icon view:
    Click Region & Language

    Then from there, in the new dialog, go to the administrative tab, click “Change System Locale”, say yes to the UAC prompt and set it to Japanese (Japan) and restart your computer.

    • This reply was modified 12 years, 10 months ago by  Jessica.
    #24220

    yani
    Member

    As previously stated. Restarting fixed it.

    Also, it’s Larisa.

    #24259

    Jessica
    Member

    Larisa,

    I’m not surprised that a reset worked, but resetting doesn’t seem to be a permanent fix to that issue. You might see this happen again–it already happened to me twice with Japanese characters on my computer in less than a week (yes I reset the first time just like you did, but it was only a temporary fix) so I found that fix along with all that background info a few days ago. It’s never happened again since I changed that option. I figured I’d share the info even though this topic is a bit stale, it’s good to know. Probably should’ve mentioned that earlier.

    Oh, and sorry I mispelled your name.

    Jessie

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