If you run IE6 and right click on any web page, you will get a drop
down menu with "encoding" as an entry. Follow the arrow to a long list of encodings. In my case, I chose Japanese and it was installed on demand, in under a minute. Then I left "Encoding" set to "Autoselect." <<
I tried this but it did not work for me. I remember that when I installed XP and then ran the 'Windows Update' wizard I clicked 'Remove' for all foreign language packages (a little short sighted, looking back). Maybe this explains why. Could not find how to undo this.
There is also a "Enable Install On Demand (Explorer)" checkbox in Explorer -> Options -> Advanced. (unchecked by default, or because of my actions above). Enabling this did not help me either.
Finally I found a link in the Wikipedia to "Alan Wood's Unicode Resources": "http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/ Lots of info and useful links there.
He tells that Microsoft has some very complete TrueType fonts. They are only shipped with MS Office. I copied the Arial unicode font (Arialuni.ttf, 24 Mb) from another machine running Office and all was well.
Erik Zachte
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