Display Japanese Characters in MapInfo
Owen
Windows XP SP3.
I am currently working with maps of the various political boundaries
of Japan. Unfortunately, I am unable to view Japanese characters in my
map layers (despite having installed East Asian language support under
the XP Region and language options) and if I do obtain a map layer
which has the Japanese characters intact, opening said layer in
MapInfo causes the characters to be replaced with underscores or
question marks.
Does anyone know why I am unable to view Japanese characters in
MapInfo?
Is there a reason why opening a MapInfo table containing Japanese
characters causes the Japanese characters to be lost?
Any help you can give is appreciated... I'm getting to the end of my
rope.
Warren Vick
Try AppLocale from the Microsoft web site (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8c4e8e0d-45d1-4d9b-b7c0-8430c1ac89ab&displaylang=en). It's a utility that you can launch MapInfoW.exe with which cons Pro into thinking it's running on a foreign operating system. You simply choose Japanese (日本) before launching Pro. Note that Pro doesn't have Unicode support so using the application in Japanese mode will render a lot of accented western European characters incorrectly.
Using AppLocale is a bit of a fudge, but works well for supporting short-term projects with non-Latin characters. We have MapInfo TAB world data (countries, places, oceans, etc.) supporting Japanese, Arabic and Simplified Chinese names in addition to European language names.
Note: AppLocale is quite old and needs to be installed as an Administrator on Windows Vista and higher.
Regards,
Warren Vick
Europa Technologies Ltd.
http://www.europa.uk.com
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