Problem with chinese/korean font display in Windows 7

[ST3PH3N]

Hi everyone. I have a strange problem with fonts being displayed as squares. I say strange because only some areas have this display problem in Windows 7. At first I thought it was a simple font cache rebuild problem, but it keeps happening randomly. Sometimes I restart the PC and the fonts are fine. Sometimes its not.

The non-unicode fonts (chinese) display fine in some parts of Windows 7. Browsers & Media players too..

The problem occurs when I try to type the chinese font or get it to display in File Properties.

(Last screenshot has more written details about the problem)
Screenshots:
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It displays the fonts fine with filenames and also on websites, apps, browsers, media players etc.
Problem is when trying to type the chinese font or get it to display in Notepad and File Properties

[Raymond]

I did some testing and this is what I found out.
When I copied some chinese characters and pasted it in Notepad, Notepad++ and Microsoft Word 2010.
Notepad and Notepad++ shows square box while Microsoft Word 2010 is able to show the chinese characters.

At Notepad++, I clicked on Encoding at the menubar > Character sets > Chinese > Big5.
I tried pasting Chinese characters again and this time I am able to without problems.

As for Windows Notepad, I don't see anywhere that I can change the encoding.
Even if I have NJStar Communicator running, I can't paste it in Windows Notepad too.

So I guess Windows Notepad is too limited. Perhaps you should try something like Notepad++.

[ST3PH3N]

Thanks for your reply Raymond. But the point is that the fonts arent able to be displayed in File Properties of the files. (See image 2 and 3). Under File Properties it just doesn't display. I've seen all sorts of display problems with asian fonts like question marks, ascii codes, and squares but nothing like this before.. these are like bricks/bars or whatever lol.

What error causes those brick/bar symbols to show up? I've tried changing System Locale to Chinese but thats just for display of Non-Unicode characters such as a chinese app. The basic operating system supports display of chinese/korean/japanese etc. fonts by default.

Like i've said before, the FNTCACHE.DAT file doesn't seem to be corrupt. I found out that just Logging off and back into my user account fixes the problem..

EDIT: I did some digging and i found a similar, but not exactly the same problem here:
forum.lowyat.net/topic/1892594

Thats for an app but strangely Media Player Classic and other apps seem to display the chinese fonts fine unlike that problem. But that problem also had the same weird looking symbols like my problem. I assume it has something to do with my fonts (but all my fonts are the windows 7 default and haven't been altered)..