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BUG: Query Designer Has Problems Displaying Some Chinese Characters

Article ID: 175244

Article Last Modified on 5/2/2006

Microsoft Visual Database Tools
Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q175244

SYMPTOMS

On clean installs of the CHS versions of Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0, sometimes the Query Designer Graphics pane does not display table names. Instead, square boxes are displayed in the Table window.

CAUSE

This appears to be a problem with the system font. The Query Designer is looking for an Arial TrueType font during startup. If it fails to find this font on the computer, it uses the system an ANSI version of Arial font.

RESOLUTION

Look for and install Arial fonts with one of the following styles GB2312_CHARSET CHINESEBIG5_CHARSET.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

You can use the Properties dialog box to verify the inbound links.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

NOTE: We have been able to reproduce this on clean installations only.

Install a clean Win95CHS machine.
Install product, load the DataTool, and create a table using DBCS characters.
Insert new local query.
Drag the newly created table into the Graphics pane.

REFERENCES

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http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?qu=vinterdev

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