Do Japanese people not use Preview?

ikaika
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in macOS edited January 2014
After weeks of frustration, I've figured out that Preview will not open anything in a folder with a Japanese filename. This even happens when OS X is in Japanese localized mode. A bit strange... Anyway, is there a way to fix this besides renaming the folders?

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  • Reply 1 of 8
    sopphodesopphode Posts: 135member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Ika

    After weeks of frustration, I've figured out that Preview will not open anything in a folder with a Japanese filename. This even happens when OS X is in Japanese localized mode. A bit strange... Anyway, is there a way to fix this besides renaming the folders?



    I made a folder with some japanese symbols as its name and the pdf file in it opened perfectly. Have you tried trashing the .plist files for preview?
  • Reply 2 of 8
    ikaika Posts: 52member
    No. What is a plist file? The ones I had problems with were .jpgs, so .pdf might me ok.
  • Reply 3 of 8
    ionyzionyz Posts: 491member
    Works fine on my end too, with my limited Japanese. Kanji and hiragana were used in naming the folder and file. Tried with a PDF first then JPEG.



    To trash the preferences (using Panther) navigate to ~/Library/Preferences (where ~ is your home folder) and search for "preview" this file should come up: com.apple.Preview.plist. Remove it.
  • Reply 4 of 8
    fulmerfulmer Posts: 171member
    My wife logs in using Japanese settings. Lots of her directories are Japanese. She doesn't have any problems.



    I've got a few directory names (and file names) that are in Japanese. No prob here...
  • Reply 5 of 8
    chikarachikara Posts: 116member
    is there a way to be using OSX and also do files with Japanese titles?



    I can't even get that Japanese font in Word to work. I want to be able to type up some of my homeworks for Japanese class I have, yet I can't get any symbols to come up.
  • Reply 6 of 8
    fulmerfulmer Posts: 171member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Chikara

    is there a way to be using OSX and also do files with Japanese titles?



    I can't even get that Japanese font in Word to work. I want to be able to type up some of my homeworks for Japanese class I have, yet I can't get any symbols to come up.



    Did you use the M$ Language enable feature for Office X?
  • Reply 7 of 8
    chikarachikara Posts: 116member
    thats probably the problem...idk know what that is even :-D
  • Reply 8 of 8
    fulmerfulmer Posts: 171member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Chikara

    thats probably the problem...idk know what that is even :-D



    There is an icon in the Office X directory. I can't remember the exact name since I'm not at home now, but it's something like "Language Register"



    Drag the other Office icons (Word, Excel, etc..) on top of that icon. A message box will appear asking to enable Japanese.



    http://www.microsoft.com/mac/resourc...figuration.xml
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