I installed the Japanese language pack for Windows 8 but I'm finding Japanese folder names and siilar don't have the actual characters displaying, either it has square blocks or garbage like '—ö‚ÍI‚í‚ç‚È‚¢‚¸‚Á‚Æ'
Any ideas how to fix?
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I installed the Japanese language pack for Windows 8 but I'm finding Japanese folder names and siilar don't have the actual characters displaying, either it has square blocks or garbage like '—ö‚ÍI‚í‚ç‚È‚¢‚¸‚Á‚Æ'
Any ideas how to fix?
Best Answer
It's because your folder names aren't encoded in UNICODE, but SJIS.
Windows, since Vista, has Asian fonts preinstalled by default
You have to change the default encoding for Windows, but this is gonna cause a lot of trouble for all other western applications.
How to do that? (actual wording may change because I don't have Windows in English)
Be warned that most western applications will be affected (for example, even windows explorer will display C:¥windows¥system32 instead of C:\windows\system32)
If the folders are few, it's better to manually recover the name with an encoding converting tool