I am using MacBook Air M2 with macOS Sonoma 14.1.2
I downloaded some files with Japanese characters and it doesn't display these characters.
I tried opening it with Visual Studio and Textedit, but it doesn't work.
But when I type it with a Japanese keyboard by myself, it displays.
What should I do to display the Japanese characters in the downloaded file?
MacBook Air, macOS 14.1
maral120 wrote:
I tried opening it with ... Textedit, but it doesn't work.
The files are probably in some encoding which apps are not recognizing. Unicode UTF-8 is standard these days. In Text Edit, File > Open, you should see a menu of Plain Text Encodings at the bottom. Try all the Japanese options. Also ask the place where you got these files what the encoding is.
maral120 wrote:
I tried opening it with ... Textedit, but it doesn't work.
The files are probably in some encoding which apps are not recognizing. Unicode UTF-8 is standard these days. In Text Edit, File > Open, you should see a menu of Plain Text Encodings at the bottom. Try all the Japanese options. Also ask the place where you got these files what the encoding is.
Hi,
Following article could help your issue.
If non-Latin fonts don’t appear correctly on Mac – Apple Support (AU)
PS If you could copy/paste a sample of that text here, I could play with it a bit to see what the encoding might be.
Japanese letter doesn't display
