Microsoft KB Archive/175244

= BUG: Query Designer Has Problems Displaying Some Chinese Characters =

Article ID: 175244

Article Last Modified on 5/2/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Database Tools
 * Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q175244



SYMPTOMS
On clean installs of the CHS versions of Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0, sometimes the Query Designer Graphics pane does not display table names. Instead, square boxes are displayed in the Table window.



CAUSE
This appears to be a problem with the system font. The Query Designer is looking for an Arial TrueType font during startup. If it fails to find this font on the computer, it uses the system an ANSI version of Arial font.



RESOLUTION
Look for and install Arial fonts with one of the following styles GB2312_CHARSET CHINESEBIG5_CHARSET.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
You can use the Properties dialog box to verify the inbound links.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior
NOTE: We have been able to reproduce this on clean installations only.
 * 1) Install a clean Win95CHS machine.
 * 2) Install product, load the DataTool, and create a table using DBCS characters.
 * 3) Insert new local query.
 * 4) Drag the newly created table into the Graphics pane.

