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Special Characters and Ascii

Harley Toll
Registered User
Join date: 5 Jan 2007
Posts: 1
12-06-2008 10:47
I only see boxes for the special characters used in like Pics.
I installed Arial Unicode, thats the only problem that search
brought up concerning this.

Still black boxes. Any ideas?
Osgeld Barmy
Registered User
Join date: 22 Mar 2005
Posts: 3,336
12-11-2008 20:37
LL really only supports the basic ascii or english unicode set, most of anything that you cannot type by hitting a button on your keyboard is out of bounds

bout the only suggestion i might have is installing language packs, and it probally wont do you much good
Wadester Madison
Registered User
Join date: 15 Jun 2004
Posts: 25
12-14-2008 10:05
I had the same problem with my older computer and I always wondered why I couldn't see the other character sets. With my new Dell, I don't have that problem but I'm not sure why. With both systems, I installed XP Pro from scratch -- with no other language packs (that I know of).

Would it have something to do with graphic cards and drivers? I used to have an ATI X1600, now I have dual NVIDIA 8800GTs in SLI mode.
Viktoria Dovgal
Join date: 29 Jul 2007
Posts: 3,593
12-14-2008 10:39
On Windows systems, the SL viewer looks for this list of fonts to fill in extended characters:

MSGOTHIC.TTC;gulim.ttc;simhei.ttf;ArialUni.ttf