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

iMac Intel 2.4GHz 4Gb, Mac OS X (10.6), Time Capsule, Lexmark C530dn

Posted on Aug 28, 2009 2:34 PM

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Roger Traill

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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.

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by TimMcJones,

TimMcJones Sep 16, 2009 2:38 AM in response to Roger Traill
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Sep 16, 2009 2:38 AM in response to Roger Traill

I'm having this issue on 10.6.1 and after changing the language settings and several restarts it hasn't changed a thing. This sort of bug is really annoying, is there any other way of stopping Kanji showing up?
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by Tom Gewecke,

Tom Gewecke Sep 16, 2009 5:13 AM in response to TimMcJones
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Sep 16, 2009 5:13 AM in response to TimMcJones

after changing the language settings and several restarts it hasn't changed a thing.

What are the first 5 items on your list in system prefs/language & text/languages?
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by aboywholikesapples,

aboywholikesapples Sep 16, 2009 5:29 AM in response to TimMcJones
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Sep 16, 2009 5:29 AM in response to TimMcJones

Go into "Language and Text" in system prefs and make sure British English is at the top of the list on the left, followed by English. You can drag the languages within the list to re-order them.

If a reboot doesn't instantly fix the problem, try using a tool like Onyx to rebuild the Spotlight Index. It's very frustrating isn't it, but you will fix it in the end!
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by bumblebird,

bumblebird Sep 16, 2009 11:22 AM in response to Roger Traill
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Sep 16, 2009 11:22 AM in response to Roger Traill

Roger you are amazing! It worked!!! Though it wasn't the worst think I've experienced in my life, it was rather frustrating. Now I can actually read my application names! Thank you thank you thank you
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by modalshift,

modalshift Nov 3, 2009 1:36 PM in response to Roger Traill
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Nov 3, 2009 1:36 PM in response to Roger Traill

Thanks Roger - this works - great!
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