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All righty, I'm using a program right now that is in Japanese. The only problem is, the real Japanese text doesn't appear on my computer. I don't know why this would be, considering that I have the Japanese language packs installed AND Global IME (so I can also type it, etc.) Does anyone have a clue as to what might be causing this? Instead, it shows random symbols (not Japanese.)

I know Microsoft Explorer sometimes shows websites this way before you right click->Encoding->Japanese, but I don't think there's any way to do this on a program. I was just curious if there was a way to fix it. Thanks for your help!

Change your interface language to Japanese. It's not an easy process, and has a global scope on your computer.

I've had the problem myself many times, and usually what I do is just reinstall it and it works. I really don't know what it is, I just reinstall and it works, never got around to figuring it out.

Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Advanced. Set "Language for non-Unicode programs" to Japanese, and confirm. Restart. This has a few cosmetic side-effects (backslashes become yen signs), but English programs still work fine in addition to displaying Japanese correctly.

That did it, Datana, thank you very much! That's very, very handy .