How to Work With Programs Using Foreign Character Sets in CX-Programmer
Written by Nick Lim
Updated at April 2nd, 2025
Occasionally, you may encounter programs that you need to modify in CX-Programmer programs with symbols that are written in a non-Unicode language. This may cause CX-Programmer to throw a compilation error due to an unrecognized symbol.
To rectify this, you set your Non Unicode Language to the language that the code was written in(common languages that you would need to do this for would be Asian character based languages e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc…)
1. Change the Windows Non-Unicode Language
1. Type region into the windows search bar
2. Click the Administrative tab and then click Change system locale then select the language you require. This example uses Japanese.
3. You will be prompted to restart your computer to apply changes. After this is done your program should compile.
2. Update Fonts in CX-Programmer
Changing the non unicode language will not make your code readable as can be seen below. To fix this use the following steps.
1) Navigate to Tools → Options…
2) Go to the Appearance tab
3) Change the highlighted fonts as neccessary
4) Select a font that supports your required language pack and change the script to your desired language. (In this case I chose @MS PGothic and Japanese n.b. you may need to download a windows language pack for this).
5) Repeat for each of the fonts in Step 3 your desired language.
