Le 07/02/2013 23:51, nbeadle a ?crit : > New here so just trying to figure this out. I'm creating a product box and > need to have a few languages on the back, one of them being Japanese. A > business partner did the translation for us and sent a Word document with the > translation, which shows up fine. I copied and pasted the text into the Story > Editor and shows up exactly as it should. Updating the text frame however > replaces all the Japanese characters with red squares. > I've spent a lot of time Google searching and some pages come up with the > same issue I have but without a solution (or at least not one I could see). > One of them mentioned about having a Japanese font, but since I'm seeing the > characters fine in many other programs I'd assume that I do. > Any help in figuring this out would be MUCH appreciated as I've got a > deadline pressing up towards me and I'm afraid I'm going to have to rebuild > the whole file in InDesign or something.
It could be a matter of font not defining these glyphs. Be sure to use there a font that defines these glyphs. If so and allways not good, you could also export the document as .ODT and import it in scribus. JLuc
