LabVIEW
Foreign characters when right clicking on vi running in run time engine
Solved!
I have two PC's windows XP SP3 that are running LV2010 labview exe files.
The same file runs on other pc's with same OS and no problems. I have reinstalled
the RTE and even the most recent RTE. No change. Any Ideas? Attached picture example
of foreign text. Only happens with right click text.
I'm having a similar issue with the Measurement and Automation palette which displays in German, French, English and (Chinese or Korean or Japanese). Never been able to correct it but I didn't put too much effort since I don't use this palette (I tried to reinstall without success).
Ben64
@RavensFan wrote:
See if anything in this thread helps.
My original post was along those lines, but I saw that it wasn't Chinese-looking in his picture. Chinese is usually the one displayed because it is the first non-English language in the LabVIEW language selection.
The Unicode bug, which this is similar to - if not the actual cause of the OP issue - is probably the biggest reason Unicode isn't officially supported in LabVIEW.
@RavensFan wrote:
I remember some threads talking about the "first language" in some directory issue. Even though this case didn't look Chinese, it could have been similar. It may have even been Chinese in those characters but maybe the PC wasn't able to display the Chinese character set.
The thread I linked also talks about the Unicode font setting in LabVIEW.ini.
Since the linked thread was very long, and had messages pointing to other related threads, it seemed like it would be a good starting point to troubleshoot the problem.
Oh, I agree - now that I think of it, this could definitely be related. Boy, I almost know that thread by heart. I refered to it often as I presented my case to my managers about the pros and cons of going with Unicode support in our applications. 😉
To cut to the chase, sometimes using Unicode did something weird to the menus and persisted even after you turned off Unicode support. The issue of why it occasionally corrupted the menus was never resolved, but at least, starting with LV 2011 (I think) re-saving an afflicted VI after Unicode support was disabled in the ini reverted the VI to non-Unicode status.
It was related to the issue where once you turned on Unicode support for a control, it set some flag that couldn't be "unset."
