Hello Ming-Li,
thanks for your reply. I will be off to a business trip now and be
back on Monday. Then I will "play" with it.
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 04:25:03 -0700GMT (29/08/2000, 19:25 +0800GMT),
Ming-Li wrote:
ML> Hi Thomas,
>> On my monitor. I right-click on a message, choose Central
>> European, and still, no umlauts are displayed but Chinese
>> characters instead. My choice "Central European" is ignored. :-(
ML> Ok, this has to do with the way C-Windows forces Chinese display on
ML> non-DBCS-aware software. It's been much improved in Win2k, for at
ML> least the same trick works here. My understanding is you hardly need
ML> Chinese display, but are simply stuck with a Chinese Windows system,
ML> right? Here's a trick: use regedit and go to the following key:
ML> [HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\fontassoc\Associated CharSet]
ML> and change the following entries' values as indicated:
ML> "ANSI(00)"="no"
ML> "OEM(FF)"="no"
ML> "CHINESBIG5(88)"="no"
ML> This trick will order your C-Win system not to force display
ML> Chinese. The downside is each application has to display Chinese on
ML> its own. In TB, it means you'll have to set the display font to a
ML> Chinese font (like "²Ó©úÅé" in C-Win). I believe nonetheless this
ML> downside means almost to you. :)
ML> If you have time, you may play with the four entries in the above
ML> mentioned registry key, setting some to yes and others to no. You'll
ML> find different applications use different ways to display text, and
ML> hence would be forced to display Chinese in different situations.
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Cheers,
Thomas.
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