{"id":71862,"date":"2014-08-28T21:53:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T19:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=71862"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:30:45","slug":"how-to-fix-chrome-64-bit-japanese-korean-unicode-text-error-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-fix-chrome-64-bit-japanese-korean-unicode-text-error-1\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fix Chrome 64-bit Japanese & Korean unicode error"},"content":{"rendered":"

The release of Chrome 64-bit<\/a> brought support for modern hardware and promises “fewer crashes, better performance, and security.” But with such a dramatic update, some things got broken, one of which is displaying unicode characters for Asian languages.<\/p>\n

There is a bug within Chrome 64-bit Version 37.0.2062.94<\/strong> that can change font settings and remove the ability to display Japanese and Korean text<\/strong>. This also affected some Chinese text, but is not as widespread. The bug isn’t easily reproduced on every computer, but you’ll know if you have it. I have Chrome 64-bit installed on different computers and I have the display error on one install of Chrome but not the other.<\/p>\n

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The major sites where people reported the problem is Facebook<\/strong> and popular Asian language sites. If you’re experiencing this bug, the steps below should get Japanese and Korean to display again in Chrome.<\/p>\n

Auto detect encoding in Chrome<\/h3>\n

Open the\u00a0Chrome menu (three bars) and locate Tools<\/em>. In the menu, find Encoding<\/em> and make sure that Auto detect<\/em> is selected. This option will automatically check to make sure the page has the right encoding.<\/p>\n

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Font settings in Chrome<\/h3>\n

Another place to check is in Web content<\/em> and the Customize fonts<\/em> menu. Open the\u00a0Chrome menu (three bars) and open the Settings<\/em> menu. Web content<\/em> is found by clicking on Show advanced settings.<\/em> Open the menu and scroll to the bottom and make sure that Unicode (UTF-8)<\/strong> is selected. UTF-8 is the most common setting for websites.<\/p>\n

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Disable DirectWrite<\/h3>\n

If the above options didn’t work or text is hit-or-miss, the best fix is to disable DirectWrite<\/strong>. To access this option, in the address bar type in chrome:\/\/flags<\/a>. This will bring you to the experimental features within Chrome. It’s recommended you don’t mess with these options, but in this case, this is the best fix.<\/p>\n

Click on Enable<\/em> to disable DirectWrite in Chrome. To apply changes, click the Relaunch Now<\/em> button at the bottom of the tab. Chrome will relaunch with all the same tabs that were previously open.<\/p>\n

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Disabling DirectWrite should solve any problems with displaying text. Now you can browse sites that contain a lot of Asian text without missing any important information.<\/p>\n

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On the Chrome product forums<\/a>, the development team is aware of the issue and there should be a fix coming soon, but there isn’t a release date. For right now, this is the only way to have a more permanent fix for the display error for unicode text.<\/p>\n

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The release of Chrome 64-bit brought support for modern hardware and promises “fewer crashes, better performance, and security.” But with such a dramatic update, some things got broken, one of which is displaying unicode characters for Asian languages. There is a bug within Chrome 64-bit Version 37.0.2062.94 that can change font settings and remove the … Continue reading “How to fix Chrome 64-bit Japanese & Korean unicode error”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2767,1045],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-71862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionchrome-64-bit","tag-google-chrome"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330259,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71862\/revisions\/330259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71862"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=71862"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=71862"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=71862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}