[Advice] Windows 7 and problems displaying Korean characters (Hangeul)
Some advice for Korean language users in Windows 7...
I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my Toshiba Protege (previously Vista OS) and had a very good experience.
The upgrade (clean) install took about an hour, less than what others have reported.
It's running faster and more efficiently and I'm very pleased.
The display language is English, but I installed the Korean language pack and got it working (all except the Hanguel/English key, but I'm working on that.)
However, I noticed that a number of Korean characters (notably 의, 윤) were just those pesky square blocks in my browser. Obviously something wasn't quite right.
I thought I'd gotten the display language/region settings right when doing the initial setup, post-install. Nope.
Turns out, there is a quick fix: Go to Region/Language|administrative|system locale, and then select Korea. What it says:
That did the trick.Language for non-Unicode programsThis setting (system locale) controls the language used when displaying text in programs that do not support Unicode.Change system locale: Korea
