Guild Wars 2

Anyone know how to solve this problem?

I’ve just joined a taiwanese guild, and this is a big problem for me.

Clarification:
I Can see the words in the speaker’s speech bubble, but not in the chat box
running on OS X 10.8.4

Try clicking on the gear on the chat panel and change the size settings, see if that helps. Please post back.

No. It makes no difference at all.

Luis Machado.4256:

Hey Max,

From what I’ve been able to find out on this the characters are not available on the client, it doesn’t seem to be a Mac client specific issue. I think it partly has to do with where the client was purchased but as it’s an unsupported language (something other than German, French, Spanish, English) I’m not sure there is anything that can be done about it. I’ll look into it further and update the thread if I find anything else out.

This is incorrect even the English / Euro releases have support for Chinese & Korean character rendering. This definitely seems to be a Mac/Cider specific issue.

It’s not specific to Macs. I am running Windows and have several styles of both simplified and traditional Chinese fonts installed — as well as Korean and Japanese fonts — and none of the Chinese, Korean or Japanese text shows in guild chat.

When entering Chinese/Korean/Japanese text using the Microsoft IME, the foreign text indicator shows up in the text entry box of the client (for Chinese, the character “? [zhong]” appears, indicating it’s in Chinese mode). When I type in the pinyin of a word, the Chinese character choices do show up below the text entry box, but when selecting the proper character, it just shows up as a blank space in the box. When I hit enter, nothing shows up in the chat window after my name.

As for where the client was purchased, I bought the electronic version online from the Guild Wars 2 site. I’ve never had a physical boxed disc.

Sanctum of Rall
SAHP guild (Ssq and Her Happy Partners)

I found out that I can see some simplified chinese characters. but none of the traditional chinese characters. weird.

Windows XP can’t input unicode.

WINE is WindowsXP-based.
Cider is WINE-based.
GW2 mac client is Cider-based.

Any update on how to fix the display issue of the text? My WvW server has a lot of folks typing in Chinese, and all I see are blank spaces in the chat. I can read Chinese and I’ll appreciate some help trying to get the characters to display properly.

from what I’ve seen, Traditional Chinese and Hangul are fine, but seems like character sets for Simplified Chinese, Hiragana, Katagana and Kanji are not supported.