Japanese Version of Java

[Crism]

I work at a computer store and we have a Japanese client who would like to use the yahoo.co.jp chat but is unable to do so because of Java and ActiveX conflictions with the English version of XP. He uses both Japanese and English. I have the Japanese Lanauge Tools set in Windows for him, but we can't find a japanese version of Java. Also, the Japanese yahoo messenger is full of ???????'s and all kinds of other non-Japanese characters. At the moment, with the english Java installed, it will just crash the Yahoo Chat upon startup. It was working before, but we had to reformat the hard drive due to viruses.

 

[sunase]

Sun used to have both an international and English only version of Java to download, but it looks like only the international ("multi-language") is available nowadays:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

Anyway, my suggestions:
Make sure 'Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Languages -> Install files for East Asian languages ' is checked.

To run a program like Yahoo messanger in Japanese support mode you'd either use Microsoft's AppLocale utility or you'd go to the Advanced tab in the same dialog and set the default language for non-unicode applications to Japanese. AppLocale lets you set it per app and make icons that continue to run it set, though.

The non-unicode setting will actually make my Java compiler start giving me error messages in Japanese as well. The drawback is some programs will detect it and install in Japanese mode (like Nero, etc.). Maybe reinstall Java with it set and then unset it, but Java is unicode based so the settings will really have little affect on it (I can read and output Japanese fine with mine set on English, provided I have the fonts installed).

 

[Crism]

Wow. I was playing around with the Java and the AppLocale and it works now. However, there is still a few things that are square boxes that Java doesn't recognize. It's a lot better than it was before lol...back then it just crashed the whole IE.