Chinese characters turns into #

[asrura1]

Hi,

How come when I enter Chinese text into Displayed Part Properties dialogue box's text field, the Chinese characters turns into "#"?

I searched the forum and someone also asked the same question back in 2006 but he answered him/herself "solved" later on without describing how it was solved...

Does anyone know?

Thanks!!

Sam

 

[JohnRBaker]

What version of NX are you running and is this the only dialog entry where you're having this problem?

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[asrura1]

I am using NX 8.5. Should have mentioned that at the beginning, sorry!

I think it is easier to see a screenshot of it. I uploaded a screenshot to engineering.com

http://files.engineering.com/getfil...d78b-42cd-a53e-648a2b324fac&file=Question.jpg

I think the # problem only occurs in dialogue boxes.

One other thing...it does not seem possible to enter Chinese for names of features (extrude, revolve, etc). This is not a problem for me because I am required to use English but just something I noticed while poking around for solution to the # problem. Is it just me, or is it normal for NX?

Thank you!

Sam

 

[asrura1]

I did more search on this problem but still cannot find any solution!

I tried changing environment variable but it did not work. Apparently, it only works for NX 8 and older.

Please, somebody help!

Thanks!

 

[JohnRBaker]

If this is a regression, it worked in NX 8.0 but now it doesn't in NX 8.5, please contact GTAC as this would be a PR and perhaps they already have a fix for this.

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[Bleaker]

I have had the same problem with Japanese characters in part attributes in NX 8. Changing my locale format to "Japanese" was what fixed the problem for me (Control panel -> Region and language settings in Win7; NOT the GUI language!). You can try changing yours to "Chinese" and see if that helps.

 

[asrura1]

Dear Bleaker,

Thank you so much! Chinese characters show up correctly, now! I just set the locale format to Chinese and it works! Our computers are all set up to have English locale format.

Thank you, again, Bleaker!

 

[Bleaker]

Good to hear. As for your earlier question about Chinese characters in feature names - this is apparently "by design": much of NX is still non-UNICODE as of 8.5 and it seems to implement this weird locale-based stopgap solution to determine the necessary character set for strings that do permit it. I guess we just have to wait for NX 9 and see how it goes.

 

[capnhook]

Funny.........chinese characters all look like "#" to me.......

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[Bleaker]

Actually, more like "井". Guess this is what was the original NX developers thought... Just don't confuse them with Japanese characters, they all look like "♯" ;-)