Does arial font support Japanese?

[michenglaoxu]

I try to display Japanese as caption string of a button. If font setup as Application font(default), System font(default), the program works fine. However, when I set up the font to Arial, it just show weird string. Does someone know if LV (Arial font) support Japanese? or Japan support Arial? Thanks.

[bburress]

Hey michenglaoxu,
    Could you possibly provide screenshots of the "weird string?"  I opened the VI that you posted, and everything shows up correctly for me.  Perhaps it's a setting within Windows itself, since my OS converted everything appropriately.

Message Edited by Brian B on 03-15-2007 11:12 AM

[michenglaoxu]

Hi, Brian:

The attached is the LV GUI display on my OS.

My OS setting: LV 8.0 (English version)

                         Windows XP with regional setting and language setting as Japan and Japanese

Please let me know your OS setting, I may try it on my machine.

Thanks.

[bburress]

Hey michenglaoxu,
       If you use Arial font in another application, such as Microsoft Word or Notepad, does it show up just fine?  How about if you type something in the LabVIEW window in another font, then change the text to Arial?  My OS is setup for English, which is how the font is appearing on your PC.  For some reason, it seems that Arial font is not being translated out of English.  Let's try Arial as other default fonts for LabVIEW.  Set your Application font to Arial, and let's see if the same behavior shows up.

[Mikk]

This is almost certainly a LabVIEW problem. See the attached image, taken on a
Japanese Windows XP machine running English version of LV 6i.
The top line (correct) uses the standard Application font.
The lower line is a copy of the upper line, but with the font switched to Arial.
Trying various fonts, some work, some show garbage. MS UI Gothic, for example,
works.

[michenglaoxu]

Hi, Brain:

Yes, it works fine in windows applications, like Excel, Word...

I try your suggestions,  but doesn't work.

By the way, my OS is English version WinXP. I only change regional settings to Japan.

[michenglaoxu]

I am waiting for the help or direct reply answer, yes/no.  No just being ignored

Is this the serive I received?

Think about we spend almost thousand dollar every year buying the support service like this? I hope not. 

If an application engineer can not give me the correct answer, please tell me the R@D engineer's contact. 

[LV_Pro]

Please understand that this forum's questions are mostly answered by other LabVIEW users. National Instruments engineers do monitor the forum, as indicated by those whose icons are all blue, but that doesn't put any specific question into the normal support path, where National Instruments keeps careful track. An engineer might respond to the question, then have to go out of town, on vacation or just have to deal with other work issues, and since this isn't the standard "tracked" problem path it won't be passed to another. There is a description of what you are seeing in the LabVIEW manual page: https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/labview/page/porting-vis-among-platforms.html

I don't know how you work around this, but this may help. 

[Mikk]

I looked again, and the answer seems to be that the Windows Arial fornt does not support
Japanese. You can use the character code viewer in Windows to view the available characters
in each font. If I select Araial in, say, Word, I can only type latin characters. Whenever I type
japanese text, the font automatically switches to one of the MS fonts (ＭＳ 明朝)

So, use the character code viewer to select a font that has the Japanese characters that
you wish to display..

[michenglaoxu]

Thanks for all the posts here.

The solution is to change fonts to Tahoma to display Japanese. I agree with Mikk, this is certainly a LV problem or bug. However, in order to display, I have to change application fonts to Tahoma, for those machines whose appication font are arial, this way doesn't work.

Thanks again.