English and Japanese in VS.NET
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I'm working on a project that includes souce and header files in which the comments were written in Japanese. The code (C++) is written in English as one would expect. Unfortunately Visual Studio displays the Japanese characters as ASCII garbage. :confused: I've installed the language on my workstation and can use it in other applications, i.e. MS Office with the appropriate fonts, but not Visual Studio. Any ideas? Domo arigato! :) If you continue to do the same things you always did,
don't be surprised if you get the same results you always got. -
I'm working on a project that includes souce and header files in which the comments were written in Japanese. The code (C++) is written in English as one would expect. Unfortunately Visual Studio displays the Japanese characters as ASCII garbage. :confused: I've installed the language on my workstation and can use it in other applications, i.e. MS Office with the appropriate fonts, but not Visual Studio. Any ideas? Domo arigato! :) If you continue to do the same things you always did,
don't be surprised if you get the same results you always got.In case someone else has the same problem, here's what I came up with: :-O The best solution IMHO, is to install VMWare on your PC and load the Japanese versions of Windows and Visual Studio. The downside is the cost involved. The JP versions of the OS and VS are free to MSDN Universal subscribers, but VMWare is about US$300. A free workaround is to install all the JP & Asian fonts needed to support the kana used in your documents. There could be a dozen or more, depending on how they were written. Beware each one resides in run-time memory and slows the PC to a crawl.:( Then when opening EACH file, follow these EIGHT steps: Menu-File -> Open -> File -> Browse -> Open -> Open With -> Text Editor with Encoding -> Select from seven (!) Japanese code pages. Marshall If you continue to do the same things you always did,
don't be surprised if you get the same results you always got.