BUG: Query Designer Has Problems Displaying Some Chinese Chars

 Last reviewed: December 11, 1997
Article ID: Q175244
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Visual Database Tools, version 1.0

SYMPTOMS

On clean installs of the CHS versions of Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0, sometimes the Query Designer's graphics pane doesn't display table names. Instead, square boxes are displayed in the Table window.

CAUSE

This appears to be a problem with the system font. The Query Designer is looking for an Arial true type fonts during startup. If it fails to find it on the machine, it uses the system an ANSI version of Arial font.

RESOLUTION

Look for and install Arial fonts with one of the following styles GB2312_CHARSET CHINESEBIG5_CHARSET.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this bug and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

For now the properties dialog box can be used to verify the inbound links.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

We have been able to reproduce this on clean installations only:

  1. Install a clean Win95CHS machine.

  2. Install product and load the DataTool and create a table using with 

        dbcs chars.

  3. Insert new local query.

  4. Drag the newly created table into the graphics pane.

The bug stated above occurs.

REFERENCES

For the latest Knowledge Base articles and other support information on Visual InterDev and Active Server Pages, see the following page on the Microsoft Technical Support site: 

   http://support.microsoft.com/support/vinterdev/


Technology        : kbInetDev
Version           : WINDOWS:1.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug

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Last reviewed: December 11, 1997
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