Windows Tip: Display Asian characters correctly

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Sick of running into web pages and email messages filled with question marks on your PC? Most likely those are Asian characters Windows doesn't display by default. To turn on support for Chinese/Japanese/Hebrew/Arabic/etc, in Windows XP:
1. Click Start > Control Panel. Select the Date, Time, Regional and Language Options category, then click Regional and Language Options.
2. On the Languages tab, select the checkbox labeled Install files for East Asian languages.
3. Click OK when a dialog box appears informing you of the storage requirements for the language files (230 MB).
4. Click OK on the Languages tab.
5. Another dialog box appears requesting a Windows XP installation disk or network share location where the language support files are located. Insert a Windows XP installation CD or browse to the appropriate network location, and click OK. Microsoft Windows installs the necessary files and prompts for you to restart the computer.
6. Click Yes to restart the computer.​
Hit the link for instructions on how to do this in Vista and earlier versions of Windows, too. Ah, much better.
Chinese/Displaying Chinese Characters [Wikibooks]
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