FPC IDE shows ????? , Japanese windows 10
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Weiss · 2023-02-24 19:21

Just got myself little laptop (GPD pocket 2) with Japanese Windows 10.
I changed windows display language to English, but sometime
hieroglyphs displayed here and there.   
I could live with that, but Free Pascal IDE shows ???? on start up
screen. Only on start up screen. IDE works fine. Except, beginning of
each line starts with [] . Was those supposed to be line numbers?

I know this is not related to IDE, but question about Windows 10. I
thought to ask here anyway. I figure I need to change characters
somewhere in Windows. If someone gave me a quick pointer to where to
look, that would be highly appreciated.

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dseligo · 2023-02-25 11:33

Not sure if it is solution, but go to Control Panel, Clock and Region
then Region, Administrative.
There is setting for non-Unicode programs, you could check that if it
is left to Japanese.

In attachment is screenshot of that window (from Windows 11, but I
think it looks the same).

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Weiss · 2023-02-28 00:37

thank you dseligo, this helped quite a bit.

Still not all English, but a lot less hierogliphs, more like "???" and
other special characters in FP IDE. Manageable. Text is displayed ok,
I can enter code at least.