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FIX: Rich Edit Control Displays Question Marks on WinNT 4.0

Article ID: 178623

Article Last Modified on 5/14/2004

Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition

This article was previously published under Q178623

SYMPTOMS

Double-byte characters appear as question marks when they are displayed in a rich edit control on English Windows NT 4.0.

CAUSE

These fonts are Unicode fonts (that is, Chinese MS Mincho) and the rich edit control is not Unicode-enabled.

RESOLUTION

Use the standard edit control. The standard edit control is Unicode-enabled and it displays double-byte characters correctly.

STATUS

This problem was corrected in Windows 2000.

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbintl kbintldev kboswin95osr200fix KB178623