I bet most of people know how to display Korean and other languages with Windows XP series.

But there are still lots of people who don't know the greateness of the best program ever made in the Earth *cough..

I will go over step by step with pictures. After reading this you will see beautiful Korean characters in Battle Net instead of broken symbols.

Is this what you see when you join Battle Net channel?

Or this?

1. First, open Control Panel then click Date, Time, Languages, and Regional Option as picture above

2a. Click Languages tab (2nd one) and click Install files for Eastern Asian languages. This enables to you read and type most of Eastern Asian languages like Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai etc..

Windows XP may install some files for Eastern languages and ask you to restart. If so restart the Windows.

2b. If you already installed Eastern Asian Languages (check mark shows up and line fades out) go to Details.

3. Click Add

4a. You will see lots of languages, select Korean

4b. If you don't see Korean, that means you didn't install Eastern Lanauges properly. Go back to step2 and check if you installed Eastern Lanauges.

5. Now you added Korean. Click OK and close the window.

From now you can read and type Eastern Asian languages from internet web pages, but this doesn't solve BattleNet Korean font problem.

You will also see some broken charcters on windows status/top/bottm bar.

This program is famouse Korean Napster called Soribada. As you can see Korean fonts are displaying on main window, but there are some broekn ??? characters on menu bar.

Bottom tabs and status bar also contain broken characters.

6. Go back to Regional and Language option and click Advanced option.

7. Change ..match non-unicode character.. to Korean. You will be asked to restart the window, do so.

Now Korean lanauge will display correctly.

Korean is displayiong properly on menu bar window too.

And bottom tabs too.

Most of all..

WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!

A. This doesn't mean your windows will be changed to Korean windows. It just enables you to read Uni-code and non Uni-code Korean lanauges, thus you won't have any problem with using your windows.

B. You can add other languages by this method. Just go back to step3 and add others if you want to.

Hope this helps.

Bard

LetMeBeWithYou

Canada4254 Posts

January 19 2005 02:43 GMT

Cool

Koreans on public games REALLy makes me mad =[

a) they dont speak english
b) they ban me for no reason
c) 2340798348239872348972314 different types of old LT Gamei
d) My game list is always covered with korean games T-T

St3MoR

Spain3256 Posts

January 19 2005 02:44 GMT

wow really thanks, i'm going to try it thxxxxx

dronebabo

10866 Posts

January 19 2005 02:47 GMT

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MaGnIfIcA

Norway2312 Posts

January 19 2005 21:49 GMT

I followed this and now i can see Korean fonts. But im having some problems with my keyboard. It seems to be Korean or something sometimes. Beacause my smilys and / doesnt work anymore. I just type something else.

Resonate

United Kingdom8402 Posts

January 19 2005 22:37 GMT

this is a REALLY good post, i'll try sorting this out!

thx!

BinaryStar

Afghanistan669 Posts

January 19 2005 22:39 GMT

On January 19 2005 11:43 LetMeBeWithYou wrote:
Cool

Koreans on public games REALLy makes me mad =[

a) they dont speak english
b) they ban me for no reason
c) 2340798348239872348972314 different types of old LT Gamei
d) My game list is always covered with korean games T-T

a) You're playing SC, so once the game gets going that shouldn't be *that* much of a problem, no? Unless it's a team game, then that sucks ;_;

b) It's probably because you're slow at downloading.

c) That's the case for any pub LT game --;;

d) T_T that sucks.

8882

2718 Posts

January 19 2005 23:09 GMT

ok, how does it help me, since I cant read korean...
well thanks for the help, probably the wannabe koreans will appreciate it

ShabZzoY!

Great Britain760 Posts

January 19 2005 23:26 GMT

On January 20 2005 06:49 MaGnIfIcA wrote:
I followed this and now i can see Korean fonts. But im having some problems with my keyboard. It seems to be Korean or something sometimes. Beacause my smilys and / doesnt work anymore. I just type something else.

there is a key combo to switch input languages so its possible you changed it.
i cant remember the key combo right now srry

SonnyBlack

Germany457 Posts

January 19 2005 23:30 GMT

#10

wah cool thanks :=)
now i just have to search my windows cd

BinaryStar

Afghanistan669 Posts

January 19 2005 23:36 GMT

#11

On January 20 2005 08:26 ShabZzoY! wrote:

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there is a key combo to switch input languages so its possible you changed it.
i cant remember the key combo right now srry

I believe the default combination is left ALT + SHIFT. If it's set in Korean mode, you can switch easily between inputting Korean and English by pressing the right ALT button. The ALT + SHIFT one changes the languages entirely. You can change the ALT + SHIFT hotkey to change the languages in Control Panel >> Regional and Language Options >> Languages TAB >> Details.

Cambium

United States16368 Posts

January 19 2005 23:55 GMT

#12

Well, mine is set for Chinese -_-

This is pretty basic knowledge, I'm suprised that some people still don't know this.

dork

Canada2207 Posts

January 20 2005 00:00 GMT

#13

i think i am going to follow those instructions and stick in chinese

thx bard

rSWisdom[9]

United States117 Posts

January 20 2005 00:19 GMT

#14

i have english, german, and korean all installed on my computer, and ive found that with the korean unicode, my german characters such as any key with an umlaut over it shows up as ? when it didn't before. any way to get korean and german to work together?

Sw1tCh

United States2005 Posts

January 20 2005 00:22 GMT

#15

Wow, this is awesome. very good post, bard. Cambium, it's not basic knowledge to most people.

Manifesto7

Osaka27149 Posts

January 20 2005 01:49 GMT

#16

Great post, thanks a lot Bard.

Taguchi

Greece1575 Posts

January 20 2005 02:07 GMT

#17

thanks thanks thanks
seeing all the ?????? was so annoying, now with some letters there the result is much more pleasing to the eye, even without understanding anything ^^

Liquid`Jinro

Sweden33719 Posts

January 20 2005 02:28 GMT

#18

Well you will barely notice any differance if you have an english version of windows

Us swedes/norweigans/people with other types of keyboard configurations will notice a differance

However, I'm fairly good at switching between kor and swe keyboards now, after only using kor keyboard for a bit I sucked at using swedish comps

Better now though!

Eatme

Switzerland3919 Posts

January 20 2005 02:34 GMT

#19

On January 20 2005 09:19 rSWisdom[9] wrote:
i have english, german, and korean all installed on my computer, and ive found that with the korean unicode, my german characters such as any key with an umlaut over it shows up as ? when it didn't before. any way to get korean and german to work together?

I have the same problem. It works in broodwar offline like lan ect but not on bnet. Also I found out how to write korean charaters but since I dont know any words thats pretty useless.