Chinese charaters display as blocks on T7A

[BobLivingston]

I'm added "Chinese (Simplified, PRC)" to MultiLanguage control. The language displays fine on my computer in test-mode, but does not display (all characters are blocks) on the panel. Is there a font that isn't being downloaded to the panel?

[mark.monroe]

Hi Bob,

What font do you have set for that particular text box? Have you tried using Arial Unicode for it?

It sounds like the font on the HMI doesn't have those characters while that same font on the PC does. I would try a few different fonts and see if one works. Arial Unicode should have those characters in it.

If you can not get it to work, you can PM me and attach the project that is causing the problems and I can take a look at it.

[BobLivingston]

I'm using Tahoma throughout the project. Is it possible to download the font from my computer to the panel?

[mark.monroe]

The fonts are downloaded from the PC to the panel. You do not need to do that, the system does that for you. If English text set to the Tahoma font displays on the HMI, then you know that font is present on the HMI.

[mark.monroe]

If you look at the Character Map in Windows it doesn't look like the Tahoma font includes Chinese characters, while the Arial Unicode one does. I am guessing that Windows is replacing the Tahoma font with one that includes those characters, while the Windows CE system is not doing that automatically.

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[BobLivingston]

I see ...

I converted the text to "Arial Unicode MS" and the Chinese text now displays - thank you.