My chinese word suddenly appear as Square box

Squares are the default character that gets shown if something goes wrong with the font settings - or if the font isn't designed to include foreign characters. If the asian character sets are not added to the file, then it'll just output the squares. It might be an issue in the registry with font definitions getting lost or corrupted - you could try cleaning that and running a scan. I'm not sure about ITunes, but in word documents, you should be able to read the writing by changing to a font that supports chinese characters... The Definitive Guide to Registry Cleaners & PC Optimization

thanks for your reply. I can read fonts from My Documents. Currently only certain program is identified that has such problem, notepad and iTunes. Both program is reading the font perfectly last few weeks. Problem only found recently. If certain chinese is corrupted, then how do i change the default font that notepad read chinese. The font menu in notepad seems only change for English. Is there a way i can repair all chinese font for Wins 7?

anybody can help?

From here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177561 To add an input language 1. Open Region and Language by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Clock, Language, and Region, and then clicking Region and Language. 2. Click the Keyboards and Languages tab, and then click Change keyboards. 3. Under Installed services, click Add. 4. Double-click the language you want to add, double-click Keyboard, select the text services options you want to add, and then click OK. ------------------------------ Not sure if that helps or not, but I thought it had to be with "Region and Language" settings

it didn't help

something new i discovered again. If i create another account on the same machine. It has no problem on itune or notepad. Guess it not my system font that has the problem. it's on individual account. any help?

update again. Problem solved. after i create another account. it seem like it reset all my setting on my old account. I deleted the new account and all the font on the old account are working now.

Well here's a good workaround Try Notepad2: http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad... The issue is, we are on an English forum, and to find out how to get Chinese with an English version of Windows is definitely an issue Yes we can use addon packs and Unicode But when it comes down to it English Windows7 is just that Although I say that, you could contact MS (for free) here: http://support.microsoft.com/oas/de... And ask them directly EDIT: Oh you replied when I was creating my reply

thanks for your reply anyway

I encountered exactly the same problem and I managed to recover by one of the restore points. I also tried to setup a new win7 system and created a text file containing a few chinese characters. I checked this .txt file using notepad after every system restart and it happened after one of the restart and I still could not figure out what caused it :(

does your restore point solved your problem?

Yes, one of the restore points solved the problem but not the immediate one therefore I did not manage to find what caused it. I have been trying to figure out the cause by reinstalling windows 7 and checked after every program I installed after reboot, and yet I still could not find which program caused to this problem. I will try to get a spare hdd to try again and hope I can find the culprit.