ZDT working in Windows 7, but showing "squares" instead of characters

[PinYin55]

I rely HEAVILY on ZDT and have a huge backup of all the words I need in a ZDT backup. I upgraded to windows 7, and ZDT runs fine. But all the chinese characters show up as "squares," which doesnt help me at all.

I know in XP you had to enable asian languages and stuff, but as far as I've researched Windows 7 is supposed to have Chinese support natively.

I've tried changing to font, running in XP compatibility mode, etc.

Anyone had an issue like this?

Worst case scenario: is there any other program that can read ZDT backups?

[weregoingunion]

For windows 7, click the start bar icon and just type "region and language" and hit enter to bring up that section of the control panel.

Then go to the last tab "Administrative" and click "Change System Locale"

Change to Chinese (Simplified, PRC) or whatever your choice is and REBOOT.

It should work now.

Keep in mind that now when installing certain programs, they will think that your computer is "Chinese" and set the default install language to Chinese. This doesn't happen very often but it did on a few programs I have installed. The ones that come to mind are PowerISO and Evernote. There are a few others but this doesn't usually happen.

This will also allow your computer to properly install Chinese programs. Without it being on, certain programs will have garbled shortcuts and filenames that are quite annoying.

Let me know if this works!

[PinYin55]

^^ Thanks for the suggestion. The reason I didn't do this earlier is I really didn't want to have a "chinese windows" just for one program.

However, I did seem to fix the problem. While changing the font to Arial didn't work before, it seems that changing it to arial then RESTARTING my computer did the trick.

Not sure why, not sure if it would work again, but its working now so I am not going to ask questions.

But thanks again, and anyone having the same problem: try messing with fonts and restarting.

I was about to go on the hunt for a chinese font, which could easily solve the problem as well.

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But thanks again, and anyone having the same problem: try messing with fonts and restarting.

I was about to go on the hunt for a chinese font, which could easily solve the problem as well.

SimSun did the trick for me.

[PinYin55]

For some reason when I used the chinese fonts like SimSum, all the text came out sideways.

Not sure what to make of that.