Pan Chinese Characters Appear as ASCII Text

 Last reviewed: September 5, 1997
Article ID: Q104597
The information in this article applies to:
  • Pan Chinese Windows NT Workstation version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

Pan Chinese characters typed in an application may appear as ASCII text. Notepad displays the characters correctly.

CAUSE

This problem may occur for any of the following reasons:

  • Riched32.dll is corrupt or an incorrect version is installed
  • The MingLiu font is not installed for Chinese (Taiwan) locale

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, expand Riched32.dll (197,904 bytes, 1/24/1997) from the Pan Chinese Windows NT Workstation 4.0 CD-ROM to the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder and then shut down restart your computer.

For information how to install the MingLiU font in Pan Chinese Windows NT Workstation 4.0, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q136477
   TITLE     : How to Install MingLiU Fonts for Big5 Applications

Additional query words: 4.00
Keywords : ntprint NTWkst kbprint
Version : WinNT:4.0
Platform : winnt

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Last reviewed: September 5, 1997
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