Is it possible to recover garbled Japanese characters?

[cli21]

Hi all, 

I recently got a vi. from a Japanese friend. There is some Japanese characters in the vi. When I open it using my computer's labview, it shows some garbled character. Below is one example.

I tried uninstall my computer's labview and then reinstall a japanese version labview, the problem still exists.

I wonder is there anyway I can recover the Japanese character? 

[Bob_Schor]

The characters aren't garbled -- they are perfectly clear Kanji characters.  You wouldn't call this line of text "Garbled", though to someone who could only read, say, Hebrew, or Arabic, or Korean, or Japanese, or Chinese, or Greek, or ..., this Latin alphabet would not be readable, either.

Who do you know with a good Kanji dictionary?  [I have one at home, but not here ...]

Bob Schor

[cli21]

Thanks for your reply. I can speak and write kanji. I don't think this is kanji.

[Bob_Schor]

Could it be Chinese characters (rather than Japanese)?

BS

[cli21]

Unfortunately, no. I am sure it's garbled character.

[zou]

They are old style Chinese characters.

But the combination just doesn't make any sense.

Note the left half of them are identical?

Looks like copied from a dictionary.

[cli21]

The orignal character should be Japanese.  Is there any way to convert the character back to Japanese?

[zou]

Have you turn on the Unicode option?

UseUnicode=True

[Bob_Schor]

Well, the right side of the first character certainly looks like "-ban", number, doesn't it?  Maybe the initial radical is leading us astray ...

BS

[Bob_Schor]

I might have found the right part of the last character, but it doesn't make a lot of sense (and I'm not 100% certain I see the strokes in the upper right corner) -- it may be the 15-stroke character "kan", which means "oversee", "rule" ...  But still no luck with the initial radical.

BS