HOW can I enter text using Japanese character sets?

[JW_Tech]

The "Text, Plates, Insets" section of the LOOKOUT(6.01) Help files states:

"Click the » button to the right of the Text field to expand the field for multiple line entries. You can enter text using international character sets such as Chinese, Korean, and Japanese."

Can someone please explain HOW to do this? Note, I have NO problem inputting Hirigana, Katakana, and Kanji into MS WORD; the keyboard emulates the Japanese layout and characters (Romaji is default) and the IME works fine converting Romaji, and I can also select charcters directly from the IME Pad. I have tried several different fonts with success and am currently using MS UI Gothic.ttf as default. Again, everything is normal and working in a predictable manner within Word.

I cannot get these texts into Lookout. I can't cut/paste from HTML pages or from text editors, even though both display properly. Within Lookout with JP selected as language/keyboard, when trying to type directly into the text field, the IME CORRECTLY displays Hirigana until <enter> is pressed, at which point all text reverts to question marks (?? ???? ? ?????). If I use the IME Pad, it does pretty much the same. I managed to get the "Yen" symbol to display, though, if that's relevant. As I said, font selected (in text/plate font options) is MS UI Gothic with Japanese as the selected script. Oddly enough, at this point the "sample" window is showing me the exact Hirigana character I want displayed in Lookout, but it won't. I've also tried staying in English and copying unicode characters from the Windows Character Map. Same results (Yen sign works, Hirigana WON'T).

Help me!

JW_Tech

[Doug M]

JW_Tech,
Have you changed the regional setting to Japanese?

[JW_Tech]

Thanks so much. (I am always reluctant to ask for assistance before exercising due diligence in trying to aquire the info myself, and didn't find this ommision). It works now.

JW_Tech 

[SteffenL]

Hi Doug,

I also tried this way, but failed. I use Win2K, there is no option like that. If I try to write something in Hiragana or Katakana, LabVIEW only shows the inserted ASCII-characters. Same, when I copy something from any Office-application into LabVIEW. Then I only see "??????".

Is there something else which is necessary to work with japanese characters?

1000 thanks,

Steffen

[JW_Tech]

Steffen:

I can't speak for Win 2000: I've never had to use it.

However, to reiterate, using Win XP and following Doug's jpg image, Lookout now displays flawlessly. We've consequently build L4P files in Russian, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, and Arabic with no problems.

JW_Tech