Can you show Chinese in a Button?

[nonecure]

I have a machine that is fully developed and runs fine, but now it needs to go to China and they would like some of the buttons to be in Chinese. 

Can I send Chinese characters to a button?

Thanks,

Doug

[RavensFan]

You need to format the font of the button to be a chinese font rather than a normal Windows font such as Tahoma.

[JorgeF]

Welcome to the LabVIEW and Unicode world!

Yes you can put chinese characters in a button.

Take a look at this (if you haven't already)

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-10153

[Daniel-C]

Hi nonecure,

Yes it is possible to do this, you will need to use Unicode. Here’s a link to a community example I think will help you. If you have any other questions about this, please let me know.

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-10153

Regards,

Daniel C

[nonecure]

This is one of those "I should have known that" moments.  I wanted to be able to show english and chinese in the same button.  I guess I would have to change both the text and font property node to make this work.

Is there a unicode type font that would display both?

[JorgeF]

Yessir, there is

As written in the document I linked earlier:

Two specific fonts commonly available on Windows that include most Unicode characters are Arial Unicode MS and Lucida Sans Unicode.

[jcarmody]

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[nonecure]

I don't have the Arial Unicode MS font, am I missing something?  I do have the Lucida Sans Unicode, but it does not display any different.

[JorgeF]

The button will not display chinese (or any special characters for that matter) by simply changing the font.

Unfortunately, there is a little more that has to be done to achieve this. Please read the link I sent you earlier. I will post an example soon enough.

[JorgeF · Accepted solution]

Here's an example: