I use XP Home edition SP2 as well as IE7 with Outlook Express and Word 2000.
In the past I have been able input simplified chinese in pinyin and also read
chinese characters in my friends emails. In the last several weeks first I
noticed that chinese characters in emails were gibberish and that some
characters on websites were shown as boxes. I tried to set OE 6 to Chinese
simplified and cannot see it?? I set about to try and resolve but no luck.
In the process I have no language bar (all that is left is a grey box and no
EN or CH like before). I have searched all the KB's and community posts and
do not see any solutions to this. I tried downloading MUI for IE7 with no
result. Does anyone have any ideas about how I can get back to where I was
before?

Thanks for any help on this extremely frustrating problem

You could try reinstalling the East Asian languages. Go to Control
Panel/Regional and Language Options/Languages, and then put in the
appropriate checkmark and click Apply/OK. You will need to have your Windows
Installation media available, either on a disk, or somewhere on your hard
drive. Good luck with this.


"Joe678" <Joe678@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3605B13F-9B69-47BD-9000-8A399C5EFAE2@microsoft.com...
>I use XP Home edition SP2 as well as IE7 with Outlook Express and Word
>2000.
> In the past I have been able input simplified chinese in pinyin and also
> read
> chinese characters in my friends emails. In the last several weeks first
> I
> noticed that chinese characters in emails were gibberish and that some
> characters on websites were shown as boxes. I tried to set OE 6 to
> Chinese
> simplified and cannot see it?? I set about to try and resolve but no luck.
> In the process I have no language bar (all that is left is a grey box and
> no
> EN or CH like before). I have searched all the KB's and community posts
> and
> do not see any solutions to this. I tried downloading MUI for IE7 with no
> result. Does anyone have any ideas about how I can get back to where I
> was
> before?
>
> Thanks for any help on this extremely frustrating problem

(Re) Installing and Using Microsoft's Chinese/Japanese IME
http://www.declan-software.com/

Chinese Characters
http://www.microsoft.com/china/
--
XP - WNP
Today is the first day of the
rest of your life.



"Joe678" wrote:

> I use XP Home edition SP2 as well as IE7 with Outlook Express and Word 2000.
> In the past I have been able input simplified chinese in pinyin and also read
> chinese characters in my friends emails. In the last several weeks first I
> noticed that chinese characters in emails were gibberish and that some
> characters on websites were shown as boxes. I tried to set OE 6 to Chinese
> simplified and cannot see it?? I set about to try and resolve but no luck.
> In the process I have no language bar (all that is left is a grey box and no
> EN or CH like before). I have searched all the KB's and community posts and
> do not see any solutions to this. I tried downloading MUI for IE7 with no
> result. Does anyone have any ideas about how I can get back to where I was
> before?
>
> Thanks for any help on this extremely frustrating problem

Thanks for the info.

I just tried that after your suggestion. No luck!! I also quickly looked on
the CD at the I386 folder and it looks like all those font files are on my PC
at a similarly named location.

Any other ideas?

Thanks
Joe

"darkrats" wrote:

> You could try reinstalling the East Asian languages. Go to Control
> Panel/Regional and Language Options/Languages, and then put in the
> appropriate checkmark and click Apply/OK. You will need to have your Windows
> Installation media available, either on a disk, or somewhere on your hard
> drive. Good luck with this.
>
>
> "Joe678" <Joe678@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3605B13F-9B69-47BD-9000-8A399C5EFAE2@microsoft.com...
> >I use XP Home edition SP2 as well as IE7 with Outlook Express and Word
> >2000.
> > In the past I have been able input simplified chinese in pinyin and also
> > read
> > chinese characters in my friends emails. In the last several weeks first
> > I
> > noticed that chinese characters in emails were gibberish and that some
> > characters on websites were shown as boxes. I tried to set OE 6 to
> > Chinese
> > simplified and cannot see it?? I set about to try and resolve but no luck.
> > In the process I have no language bar (all that is left is a grey box and
> > no
> > EN or CH like before). I have searched all the KB's and community posts
> > and
> > do not see any solutions to this. I tried downloading MUI for IE7 with no
> > result. Does anyone have any ideas about how I can get back to where I
> > was
> > before?
> >
> > Thanks for any help on this extremely frustrating problem
>
>
>

I feel pretty stupid right now - but in case anyone else should have this
same problem - Don't forget to click under "Regional and Language Options"
"Default User Account Settings" "Apply"!!!!!

Thanks for trying to help!

Joe

"Byte" wrote:

> (Re) Installing and Using Microsoft's Chinese/Japanese IME
> http://www.declan-software.com/
>
> Chinese Characters
> http://www.microsoft.com/china/
> --
> XP - WNP
> Today is the first day of the
> rest of your life.
>
>
>
> "Joe678" wrote:
>
> > I use XP Home edition SP2 as well as IE7 with Outlook Express and Word 2000.
> > In the past I have been able input simplified chinese in pinyin and also read
> > chinese characters in my friends emails. In the last several weeks first I
> > noticed that chinese characters in emails were gibberish and that some
> > characters on websites were shown as boxes. I tried to set OE 6 to Chinese
> > simplified and cannot see it?? I set about to try and resolve but no luck.
> > In the process I have no language bar (all that is left is a grey box and no
> > EN or CH like before). I have searched all the KB's and community posts and
> > do not see any solutions to this. I tried downloading MUI for IE7 with no
> > result. Does anyone have any ideas about how I can get back to where I was
> > before?
> >
> > Thanks for any help on this extremely frustrating problem