Rendering Chinese Characters in XP

[nathanson1947]

I purchased a computer tower last summer for $100.00. With a 2.66 Celeron processor, 512 MB RAM, and a 40 GB hard drive, it seemed like a good deal. While I have no trouble seeing anything printed in English or Hebrew, Chinese characters usually come out as gibberish. . When I tried to use the regional language settings in the control panel, I kept getting prompted for a Windows XP Home Edition CD, which I of course don't have, since XP was already installed in the computer when I purchased it. I can't seem to find a place on Microsoft to download the needed files, and Microsoft now charges $49.00 for a technical support question.

Does anyone here have any solutions???

Jack

[allen2]

You'll need the CD or the files at some point in time and if you bought a pc without a legal XP license the only way is to buy one. Or you might change to a free linux distrib or another free OS.

[iamtheky]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=deb6731a-ca36-47a3-b4a0-2a1d19eefa05

contains the mshei and mssong true type fonts. even if the package wont install you can uniextract it and add the fonts manually.

Edited May 19, 2010 by iamtheky