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Junk Characters in ChineseAsian Languages

February 11, 2014 12:00 AM

hi,

We are developing e-learning courses in Lectora 11x and are currently facing characters that show up as squares when we publish this in v11.3. This junk character issue is only visible on IE 8, but it shows up fine on IE 9 and above. The possible solution is that we can upload windows 7 default fonts on the IE 8 system and the issue is resolved. But what if someone cannot upload the fonts? What is the solution then?

Please advise

Regards,

Kavita S Dhawan.

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@timk February 11, 2014 12:00 AM

You can convert your textfields to images. They will look in the browser like they do in Lectora.

Tim

@chrystalb February 13, 2014 12:00 AM

I ran across this, which may help:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3867678/how-can-i-make-chinese-characters-show-in-ie8-without-forcing-compatibility-mode

The problem is that IE8's default font for Chinese is set to nothing!

Here's the fix.

Push alt to bring up the file menu.

Go to /tools/internet options/fonts/

Set the "Language Script" to Chinese Simplified

Select the only option - Arial Unicode MS

Accept the changes- problem solved.

This oversight affects Chinese Traditional, Korean, Japanese, and probably most other asian languages.

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