displaying foreign letters

[aruwin]

My computer cant read foreign letters like kanji,hanggul(korean),russian,everything except roman letters.How to make these foreign alphabets displayed and readable for my computer?

[guns1inger]

http://www.humanities.uci.edu/hcf/help/language.php explains some of it. It depends on the language, and some are better supported than others. It also depends on the context. What do you want to display in ? Word ? Subtitles ? Browsing ?

[aruwin]

http://www.humanities.uci.edu/hcf/help/language.php explains some of it. It depends on the language, and some are better supported than others. It also depends on the context. What do you want to display in ? Word ? Subtitles ? Browsing ?

browsing and word.I have japanese and korean songs on media player but the titles all appear like squares instead of letters.

[guns1inger]

Start->Control Panel->Regional and Language Options. Click on the Languages tab and you can install East Asian language support. Also, if you click the Details button you can access the Language Bar options and add other languages. This may or may not help.

[Midzuki]

Also:

Goto Desktop, right-click, choose "Properties";
goto "Appearance", click on "Advanced";
select the font "Arial Unicode MS" for "wherever" you need it.

<OFF TOPIC style="rant">

By default, Windows ought to install complete support (fonts,
IMEs, whatever) for every damn known language. This is what "tons of
cheap HDD space" should be for.

</OFF TOPIC>

[jman98]

I agree with Midzuki that Microsoft should just install this stuff for you, but it probably doesn't because people in the USA would lose their minds about how "unnecessary" fonts are installed if they did it for you.

While you can certainly install Cyrillic fonts yourself as suggested above by guns1inger, in reality this approach does not always fully work. If you really and truly have to have Cyrillic fonts and that approach is not working for you, you can always go to
http://www.cyrillic.com/
and buy and install the Cyrillic Support 2000 program. It will make Cyrillic fonts work correctly on your PC, but the downside is that it will also break Western European fonts and any European (ie. French, Spanish, etc.) letters with accent marks won't be correct. English will look fine since English does not use accent grave, etc.