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I am using visual studio 2005 to develop application.
my OS is windows 7 professional. The application works fine, it can receive East Asian language and then store it in mysql database.

but the behavior get changed when I move application to another machine which is also a windows 7 (probably home edition not sure, its not with me right now). If I try to type the East Asian Language text shows box, not the text.

Then I opened my browsers, they were OK. then I open Microsoft office they were fine. And then I open Notepad its not working, showing box(!!!!).

When I tried to debug, i can guess its getting the proper text from mysql server. but on debug window it shows boxes.

Now You might suggest me to install East Asian language support. It might solve the problem. but I am wondering how come msword, firefox, chrome can and notepad, visual studio 2005 and the application I build fails?

Thanks in Advance

Posted 10-Jun-12 23:32pm

Lal Miah

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nv3 · Answer 1 · 2012-06-11T00:08:00

That could be a font problem. Not all fonts contain the same character set and particularly not all contain support for the Asian character sets. So, if Word, Firefox, etc. are using a different font they might be doing ok, while your application and Notepad are using an incomplete font and you see just boxes. Installing East Asian language support might install another version of that font, which contains the character set you need and all would be fine again.

That's just my best guess.