Solution
Some fonts do not work correctly in LabVIEW on a localized OS. The problem seems to happen only on certain localized versions of the Windows OS. You can prevent coercion to a font supported by your OS's code page by manually specifying a code page for the font in the ini file. Append a sentence to the
C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\LabVIEW 201X\LabVIEW.ini file as follows:
FontCodePageList=Font name,Code Page Identifier If you want to use several fonts, Append the sentence to the ini file as follows:
FontCodePageList=Font Name1,Code Page Identifier;Font Name2,Code Page Identifier;Font Name3,Code Page IdentifierThe following table defines the available code page identifiers in Windows.
Identifier | .NET Name | Additional Information |
1250 | windows-1250 | ANSI Central European; Central European (Windows) |
1251 | windows-1251 | ANSI Cyrillic; Cyrillic (Windows) |
1252 | windows-1252 | ANSI Latin 1; Western European (Windows) |
1253 | windows-1253 | ANSI Greek; Greek (Windows) |
1254 | windows-1254 | ANSI Turkish; Turkish (Windows) |
1255 | windows-1255 | ANSI Hebrew; Hebrew (Windows) |
1256 | windows-1256 | ANSI Arabic; Arabic (Windows) |
1257 | windows-1257 | ANSI Baltic; Baltic (Windows) |
1258 | windows-1258 | ANSI/OEM Vietnamese; Vietnamese (Windows) |
Note: Originally, Windows code page 1252, the code page commonly used for English and other Western European languages, was based on an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) draft. If you want to know more about code page identifiers, refer to
External Link: MSDN: Code Page Identifiers.