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log files in Chinese cannot be displayed by xliz on 06-25-2006 at 05:42 AM
I have used msg plus! for more than a year, and at the very beginning, I used MSN Messenger 7.5 + plus 3.5, and I guessed I stored all log files with ANSI/MBCS format. After I switched to MSN 8.0 + plus 4.0, I noticed that all the log files which contain Simplied Chinese characters cannot be displayed properly. Is there anything I can do to fix this problem?
Thanks!
![[Image: untitled4nv.gif]](http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/3088/untitled4nv.gif)
RE: log files in Chinese cannot be displayed by Patchou on 06-25-2006 at 06:20 AM
Can you tell us what the problem is exactly in your screenshot? (appart from the misalignement, this is caused by the font used by Internet Explorer).
RE: log files in Chinese cannot be displayed by xliz on 06-25-2006 at 06:38 AM
Sorry for the unclear question above..
Two different encodings are currently used in displaying Chinese characters, GB (Mainland China) and Big-5 (HK and Taiwan). If a character in one particular Chinese encoding is displayed using the other one, then it will not be displayed correctly.
For example, a paragraph which is encoded by GB, when it is displayed with GB encoding, then you will see the correct display:
![[Image: 017ss.gif]](http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/3661/017ss.gif)
if it is displayed with Big-5, then the following one will be shown, and it doesn't make any sense:
![[Image: 028ul.gif]](http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/1600/028ul.gif)
What I am experiencing is quite similar to the above problem, so I believe it has something to do with the encodings, GB, Big-5, ANSI and Unicode etc.