Microsoft KB Archive/141861

= Asian Characters Are Lost in Translation =

Article ID: 141861

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 95b

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This article was previously published under Q141861





SYMPTOMS
When you open a presentation created in a Japanese, Chinese, or Korean version of PowerPoint (hereinafter referred to as Asian PowerPoint), all the Asian characters are changed to special characters or symbols. Also, you may receive the following error message in PowerPoint 7.0 when opening an Asian PowerPoint presentation:

This presentation may contain non-displayable text and formats from the Far East.



CAUSE
The Asian versions of PowerPoint use a double-byte font set that cannot be used in the non-Asian versions of PowerPoint. When a non-Asian version of PowerPoint opens an Asian file, these fonts are translated into symbols, because there is no matching font set.

Additional query words: lost gone missing symbol junk garbage jumbled oriental kanji eastern far east kbconvert ppt97 8.0

Keywords: KB141861

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