Q: Spotlight Characters: Apps display in Kanji or Chinese
Trying to find an application using Snow Leopard results in the right icon being displayed next to the name but the name is in Chinese (Or Kanji) or something like that. All other spotlight list items are in English!
Any thoughts anyone?
Thanks
James
Any thoughts anyone?
Thanks
James
iMac Intel 2.4GHz 4Gb, Mac OS X (10.6), Time Capsule, Lexmark C530dn
Posted on Aug 28, 2009 2:34 PM
by Roger Traill,Solvedanswer
The solution seems to be that you have to have "English" in your language list not one of the English versions, ie I know have "Australian English" and "English". Neither adding US or British English fixed it.
I worked it out as I have a "clean" admin user and it worked fine, looked in the language list and "English" was in it.
It seemed to take a couple of spotlight searches before it switched the chinese characters off.
I had tried turning all the kanji type fonts off but some couldn't be turned off as they were needed by the system (?). This had no effect.
I worked it out as I have a "clean" admin user and it worked fine, looked in the language list and "English" was in it.
It seemed to take a couple of spotlight searches before it switched the chinese characters off.
I had tried turning all the kanji type fonts off but some couldn't be turned off as they were needed by the system (?). This had no effect.
Posted on Aug 30, 2009 4:55 PM