Japanese Characters in VS

[StrangerInBeijing]

My work computer I just took over from the previous developer, so not sure how he set it up.
See, my C# code contains a lot of Japanese characters.
Now, I reinstalled my machine, but just cannot open my project and start working, because the Japanese characters shows as garbage.
I installed files for Asian Languages, but still no avail.

I can view Japanese on my machine though. I can for instance go to a website, copy some japanese characters, and paste it into say a asp.net page. But when I try to save it (same thing in notepad, word, etc)I get an error saying that the file contain Unicode characters which will be lost if i save the file as Ansi encoded text. This I can fix in VS studio, which allow you to save your work in certain encoding.

BUT , I need to open my existing project. I MUST finishe it this week-end and it have to go live tomorrow night!

PLEASE, I'm desperate!!!!

[StrangerInBeijing]

strange...I just copied some japanese text into a word document, and saved it.
It did not complain, and when i opened the file again, the japanese displayed correctly!!!!

[dglienna]

Unicode is your friend!

[StrangerInBeijing]

Thanks for the prompt reply.

Please tell me what to do.

I will be completely honest and say 6 weeks ago I knew nothing about asp.net and never worked with anything that required any language related stuff.

I cannot think of words to express how much i will appreciate if you can walk me through this.

[mendhak]

Viewing Japanese and having Japanese are two different things. You need to install the Japanese language pack. Go to Regional Settings in Control Panel. Go to the Languages Tab. After the Details button, add the Japanese keyboard there. It should install the IME for you. Also, check the "Install files for East Asian languages" checkbox.

Also, add Japanese under the Advanced tab.

Once all this is installed and you reboot, you should have the Japanese IME keyboard input for yourself and your programs. (You may also notice the font change in VS.NET).