Why does my LabVIEW occasionally display in Chinese?

[Allison_M]

Hi Stefan,

The unexpected behavior was fixed in LabVIEW 2011. Do you notice any consistent behavior as to when you see the Chinese project explorer or is it very intermittent? Does restarting your computer/LabVIEW fix the problem each time?

Regards,

[chlcqq]

HI

[chlcqq]

Hi!

   I have look the screenshot you given. I can speak chinese. The characters on the picture do not translate the name of menus from English to chinese. These chinese words are meaningless. They are look like the errors of font library. Hope the NI engineers can help you solve the program.

Chen

[mniedernhuber]

H Allison,

it ist absolutely intermittent. It happend now after some month and it is not reproducible, can't see anything that causes

that error like "when i do this, it happens".Next time it could happen tomorrow, next week or again in a couple of month.

I saw that also happen more than once a day. Sometimes only the names of the folders, VIs etc. are shown

in chinese as shown in the pictures, the main menue from LV is still in german. But i saw also that the main menue

from LV where in chinese too, no german letters left.

Sometimes restarting LV helped, sometimes only a restart of the computer helped, can see any regularity at the moment.

Unfortunately i can't switch with that project to LV2011.

(it is not very usefull for customers that a bugfix is only available in conjunction with a new LV version.

NI should give a LTS for LabVEW, but that is another point)

I will post further pictures and information when it happens again

Stefan

[OriginalP]

Does anyone encountered this problem during run-time execution?

I made an application and recently I have localizated it using the Unicode library.
Sometimes and randomly it happens that non-unicode strings and numbers are shown as Unicode strings.
So everything appears like Chinese language or other strange characters.
I believe it is the same issue seen in development mode.
The only thing that addresses this issue is to close and restart the application.

Is there a solution? Suggestions?
Many thanks in advance
Alberto

[mniedernhuber]

I think it was a problem of LV2010. Since i switched to LV2012 and later to LV2014 i never saw that again.

[OriginalP]

I use LV2012 SP1 32-bit

[jbore08]

This seems not to be the same issue from LabVIEW 2010, OriginalIP it is possible that you provide us a screenshot to see the behaviour of your application?

[OriginalP]

how it should be and how normally it is (in development and run-time mode):

I pass localized UTF-8 strings to controls and indicators (using LabVIEW Unicode Programming Tools)

how it is sometimes (image grabbed with a phone, since the issue happens randomly and I have not been able to reproduce it in development mode):

Everything that has been localized is fine, all the other controls and indicators (strings and even numbers, see DBLs) are corrupted and displayed like Chinese.

Any hints is very appreciated.

[magyar]

Isn't it easier to upgrade to a later version of LabVIEW, instead of spending time fixing an old version?

My solution was the upgrade, instead of learning mandarin.