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Q141861: Asian Characters Are Lost in Translation

Article: Q141861
Product(s): Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows
Version(s): WINDOWS:4.0,7.0; :4.0,7.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 16-APR-2000

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows, version 4.0 
- Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 95, version 7.0 
- Microsoft Japanese PowerPoint for Japanese Windows, version 4.0 
- Microsoft Japanese PowerPoint for Japanese Windows 95, version 7.0 
- Microsoft Chinese PowerPoint for Chinese Windows, version 4.0 
- Microsoft Chinese PowerPoint for Chinese Windows 95, version 7.0 
- Microsoft Korean PowerPoint for Korean Windows 95, version 7.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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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

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbHLangKorean kbHLangJapanese kbHLangChinesePan kbHLangChineseSimp kbHLangChineseTrad kbPowerPtSearch kbPTProdChange kbPowerPt700 kbZNotKeyword2 kbZNotKeyword3 kbPowerPt700Search kbPowerPt400
Version           : WINDOWS:4.0,7.0; :4.0,7.0
Hardware          : x86

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