Can't display chinese and korean fonts

baimao said:

Hello ags, I followed your original advice, re: unchecking "Hide fonts" and I was thrilled when it worked! BUT, SUDDENLY MY FONTS HAVE ALL GONE BACK TO SQUARES! It must be the result of a recent "Windows Update" install, which "fixed" the loophole Do you have this problem now? If so, do you have a new solution to offer? Thanks! I just want to be able to DISPLAY FONTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES, not view my system in another language -- There is no reason for Microsoft not to allow this?

I went to this other website and tried the suggestion he made and it actually worked. Here's what he said:

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If you are having problems with distorted fonts it is probably because the font cache data got corrupted
 
[B]To fix this, try deleting the file C:\Windows\System32\FNTCACHE.DAT and restart your Win7. Don’t worry, this file will be re-created at startup.[/B]
 
I hope this help you with the problem.

I just searched that directory from the search box and deleted it & restarted my comp. I went to my itunes and I could see the characters now. Hope that helps you! :)

Credit: Gyan Garcia Broken Korean Fonts

I have done it and nothing changed

Recently, I met this problem too. Is there any new solution, because I tried all of the method above but the problem is not solved.

omg i got the same problem too

i tried deleting the .dat , reinstalling the language , etc and nothing seems to work

it just work after rebooting, but after i turn it off and turn it on again its broken again

pls help

it was working fine until 3 weeks ago

hi !

i'm experiencing the same problem, for a couple of days.
i have a lot of asian fonts and suddently, i can't see the japanese chinese ans korean fonts. I have a korean hotmail, and i can see the words. I'm listening to korean music, and i can see it on VLC but when i open the music folder, i can see squares only.

is it an update problem ? i've been looking for solutions on french websites, but couldn't find anything, nobody's talking about the problem but you.

what should we do ? how can we report it ?

Hi, I'm actually having the same problem and I'm wondering if anyone has found a fix yet?

The only music I listen to is Korean music and my iTunes looks horrid now. It has been working perfectly for over a year now but when I just did an update a couple of days ago all of the Korean characters turned to boxes and I can't figure out how to turn them back.

I noticed most of these comments are fairly old so just checking to see if anyone has a new fix.

Thanks!
Rebekah

" log off and log back in again"

can you explain, please ???

i still see the squared boxes, so irratating !
how can we report it ?

Ashelia said:

" log off and log back in again"

can you explain, please ???

i still see the squared boxes, so irratating !
how can we report it ?

What I did was: I installed the korean fonts as normal, but after every reboot of my computer I am unable to see the korean fonts until I log out of windows and then log back in to windows.

complete tutorial available here with screenshots : https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9b...0tfWWJ0MzdBZHc



1. START MENU > type fonts in the search box


2. CLICK ON fonts


3. Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Fonts

4. CLICK ON fonts settings AT THE TOP OF THE LEFT PANE MENU


5. A WINDOW WILL POP UP, JUST UNCHECK THE BOX WHICH SAYS hide fonts based on language settings


6. RESTART YOUR COMPUTER

YOU SHOULD NOW BE ABLE TO SEE ASIAN CHARACTERS, SUCH AS KOREAN AND JAPANESE, INSTEAD OF SQUARE BOXES.

ENJOY !