How to Get Asian Characters to Appear on Non-Asian Windows Phones

Are you multi-lingual or trying to be multi-lingual?

If you’ve tried some of the cool language translation programs in the Windows Mobile Marketplace such as LangLearner or LangLearner Translator, you might have been disappointed to see that Chinese or Japanese translations appear as empty boxes instead of the actual characters. Simply download the Sunglobe CAB (in a ZIP file), install it to your device, and reboot. After that your language translation software should be showing Chinese and Japanese characters just fine.

Originally published on Pocketnow on November 30, 2009. More How To articles from the Pocketnow archive.