chinese font display

[Semper Fi]

I bought Word 2004 b/c it's unicode compliant, and I was told it would
display Chinese fonts. When I create a doc in English, then send out
for translation, I cannot see Chinese fonts. All I have are a few
Roman characters that would normally be left, with a spinrkling of
Chinese, plus gray squares that say they're times new roman in the
formatting tool bar. The translator uses Word on a PC, here in the
U.S. I have word 2004 on a Mac with 10.3.9.

 

[Priyanka Singhal [MSFT]]

Hi Semper ,
Please try changing the font to Pmingliu or simsun . Usually you get squares
when there is no font glyph for the the character.
Thanks,
Priyanka

 

[Semper Fi]

I feel like the dumbest guy on the planet, but I cannot find those
fonts by name in my system at all. There are a number of oriental
character fonts, but even when viewing the font menu with WYSIWYG font
display turned OFF, I still see only oriental characters for these
fonts, not English names I can recognize. I DO have the fonts on my
system, because they show up in the correct locations when I do a
"find" on them. But for all I know these oriental characters could be
Korean, not Chinese

Thanks for trying to help Priyanka

 

[Priyanka Singhal [MSFT]]

I have send a picture of these fonts to this address (e-mail address removed)
Hope that helps .I myself cannot read Chinese and thus very well understand
your problem.
Thanks,
Priyanka

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi Ray,

To see which fonts are missing, check in "Word > Preferences > Compatibility

Font substitution".

You can even search for them if they're missing, so that doesn't mean much.

The Word setup will give you some choice of language support you want to
install. Probably there's a list somewhere as to which fonts are installed
for which language support.

Regards,
Klaus