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maybe anyone have ideas of how to display Chinese characters in the ListView control ?

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What problems do you have exactly? –  Јοеу Nov 5 '09 at 8:23
It displays "???????" instead of Chinese characters. Thats, I think, is the main problem. –  Lukas Šalkauskas Nov 5 '09 at 8:31
What windows version? You could try going into Control Panel and setting region to China PRC to see if it works on a system level. –  Claptrap Nov 5 '09 at 8:50
I normally do that to check time/date, if they work then it should work in your app. –  Claptrap Nov 5 '09 at 8:51
My problem was I was using the Arial font and not Arial Unicode MS. Once I changed the font of my dialog things started working. Hope it is that easy for you too. –  Stephen Nutt Nov 30 '09 at 0:54
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Ensure you have Chinese character capabilities on your actual machine and browser:


If you've done that and it's still a problem, perhaps you are getting data from a database that has been input as Chinese, but the data type on the relevant column isn't Unicode. In which case make change the data type to for example, nvarchar.

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