Chan

Andrew, you can try this, if the programme you installed is a non-unicode
program (if you program is a unicode programe, the character should display
without setting), it works on Windows XP.

Contral panel-->regional and language options-->Advance tab-->set the
"language for non-unicode programs" to a language match with your program
language (in this case chinese).--> restart your computer.

Then run your program, the character should display properly

"Andrew" wrote:

> I'm running Vista Business, and installing a program that uses Chinese
> characters (Tencent's "QQ").
>
> Although I can read webpages, type in Chinese (in MSN, Word, etc), the
> program's interface is supposed to be in Chinese, but instead displays random
> symbols, numbers.
>
> The program installs fine on XP with the Chinese language pack, but not on
> Vista Business. How can I make the characters display???
>
> Thanks!