Visual Studio 2003 GUI in japanese

Question

I have an application developed in C++ in Visual Studio 2003 (Windows Forms application). My requirement is such that some of the text of the GUI of the application has to be in Japanese and some other in English. I am copping the Japanese text from the Google language tool and pasting in the main menu bar text in the form. Doing this is giving me small squares instead of actual Japanese text. However, when I am pasting thise text in a Word file, the characters are printing correctly.

How do I resolve this issue of multi-language GUI in Visual Studio 2003 (Windows Forms application)?

Answer 1

You need to use a font on your form that supports Far Eastern glyphs, such as a Shift JIS font. Check what font Word uses for the pasted text, and see if you can set your form and controls to use that same font.