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# Pan Chinese Characters Appear as ASCII Text

Article ID: 104597

Article Last Modified on 2/20/2007

APPLIES TO

- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition

This article was previously published under Q104597

## SYMPTOMS

Pan Chinese characters typed in an application may appear as ASCII text. Notepad displays the characters correctly.

## CAUSE

This problem may occur for any of the following reasons:

- Riched32.dll is corrupt or an incorrect version is installed
- The MingLiu font is not installed for Chinese (Taiwan) locale

## RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, expand Riched32.dll (197,904 bytes, 1/24/1997) from the Pan Chinese Windows NT Workstation 4.0 CD-ROM to the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder and then shut down restart your computer.
For information how to install the MingLiU font in Pan Chinese Windows NT Workstation 4.0, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: 136477
TITLE : How to Install MingLiU Fonts for Big5 Applications

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