Need help with Japanese support in SonicStage 4.3

[Sepheriel]

Hello,

I had the proper fix for about 3 years for SonicStage to properly display Japanese characters. I had gone into the registry and changed the values and used Applocale and had East Asian support installed. Up until recently it all worked, now it doesn't. I updated SonicStage to version 4.3 to see if that would help and it didn't. I am running the US version of SonicStage 4.3. I checked multiple times to see if I missed something after the install, but I followed the directions posted on this forum and it still doesn't work. Please help because I really don't know what's going on; all the values in the registry are correct and I am running it through applocale. Another odd detail is that since SonicStage has stopped working my backslash is a Yen symbol in certain instances and not in others. Is this something else entirely? Thanks for your time.

Regards

Edited April 8, 2008 by Sepheriel

[Sepheriel]

Bump. Please someone respond

[Heman]

Here is my experience, I have done the following and so far the Trad/Simp Chinese, and Japanese characters are displayed correctly in my SS4.2/4.3. Use default language SS is OK.

Simply install the "Minimum Installation (you can uncheck the Japanese input method for further)" of "Unicode for Chinese and Japanese (Unicode Extension) for Windows (Windows 95 98 ME 2000 XP) http://search.cpatch.org/download/patchuti...odeaton_250.exe (Non-Microsoft software). It works for English, Simplified/Tradtional Chinese Windows, and/or Jap. Windows (not tested so far on mine). Yeah, FreeBSD and Linux are supported (get it from Homepage). There is no mention for Windows Vista. The installation interface will be changed according to your default language. The only discrepancy is it will mess up the "FrontPage XP" code, and warning will be displayed if there. There is no need to edit registry entry!

HomePage in Traditional Chinese only http://uao.cpatch.org/index.php?%E9%A6%96%E9%A0%81

Edited April 10, 2008 by Heman

[Sepheriel]

So am I supposed to change my Default Windows Input language to Japanese is my default system language to Japanese? I downloaded the program and checked all of the boxes for the install. Do I run SS through AppLocale or what? Still need more help and I don't want to change my default Windows language, which is English.

[pata2001]

So am I supposed to change my Default Windows Input language to Japanese is my default system language to Japanese?

Nope. That won't work on later versions of SS (I think anything after 3.x). You have to use applocale. Was there any error messages? Did you change any of the windows' default fonts? Are you sure you didn't change windows' language?

TBH, I can't believe people are still willing to put up with this.

[Heman]

So am I supposed to change my Default Windows Input language to Japanese is my default system language to Japanese? I downloaded the program and checked all of the boxes for the install. Do I run SS through AppLocale or what? Still need more help and I don't want to change my default Windows language, which is English.

1. No need to change as following(depends on your Windows original default):

Regional and Language Options>Text Services and Input Languages>Default input language>English (United States) - US

2. No need to run with AppLocale (both mentioned programs), forget it.

If Japanese/Chinese characters are still garbled, change the default language (normally there is no need to do this step), say, to Japanese as following:

Regional and Language Options>Advanced>Language for non-Unicode programs>Japanese or Chinese ...

It works for latest and earlier SS versions on Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Not tested on Vista.

Hope this helps

Edited April 10, 2008 by Heman

[Sepheriel]

There is no error message, pata, when I run it in AppLocale and I haven't changed the Windows default fonts or language.

Heman, I tried running SS after installing that program and it still displayed all Japanese titles as question marks.