Babel Fish and Chinese and Korean translations

[FatBoy]

Hi people,

One of the teachers within my school wants to use Babelfish as it has Chinese and Korean translations. The problem is it doesn't display the Chinese and Korean characters, it just displays squares! (please see attachment) Bablefish works ok with other languages just not those that uses symbols instead of abc etc. Do I have to install the Chinese and Korean languages or something? I'm using XP on these machines.

The extra factor is on my Vista PC it works fine and I have no extra languages installed! I tried a bit of googling but not found a lot, any one else had this problem or know of another better translation site?

Thanks
FB
aka Duncan

[Friez]

You will need to install Chinese and Korean languages for Windows XP.

To do this:
Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options

On the Languages Tab ensure Install files for complex script... is ticked and Install files for East Asian languages is ticked. You may need to reboot at this point, but apply and windows will go and install stuff.

After a reboot go back in, and check the Advanced Tab, if Japanese, Chinese e.t.c. are not selected, ensure they're selected e.t.c. Apply, Restart and you will be able to see the scripts that you want.

Additionally, if they need to INPUT in these languages you can set up the IME's from the Details... button on the Languages tab.

As for Vista, it probably comes with unicode/language packs pre-installed, just not the IME's.

Hope that helps!

[FatBoy]

Hi Friez,

Thanks for the info and its roughly what I thought the problem would be, unfortunately I have just tried this and its not worked

[powdarrmonkey]

Don't you need a language pack for IE as well?

[Friez]

Hmm Weirdness, is the page in the right encoding? (Right click the page, or view menu in Internet Explorer -> Encoding -> Japanese (Auto) if showing Japanese) failing that, I can't think of much more.

If you want to test that your fonts installed correctly, you can download the attached test document which I've prepared that lets you see if you can render Chinese, Japanese and Korean, if you've got problems reading this, then theres a problem with your Language installation, if not then it's probably something else.

Encoded in UTF-8

[FatBoy]

Thanks for the replies people still having no luck though even added the languages to internet explorer settings.... can't understand what I'm missing.

Plus your txt file doesn't display correctly on the PC so something is missing, it's ok on my PC though

[FatBoy]

We have found the solution to this issue! Adding all the languages in Regional and Language settings in the control panel or the language setting in IE didn't work. The way we got it working in the end was to do a Full install of Office instead of a Typical install.

I'm not 100% sure which component in office adds the support but it fixed the problem

Cheers to all for your suggestions