Language Characters are Displayed Incorrectly in LabVIEW

Updated Mar 26, 2025

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Software

  • LabVIEW

Operating System

  • Windows

Issue Details

I am using Chinese VI in my Japanese LabVIEW but the Language Characters are showing garbled. 
I followed Chinese Characters are Displayed Incorrectly on LabVIEW Front Panel but now my LabVIEW user interface is showing incorrectly in character.

Solution

This issue arises from the system locale setting in your Windows. Both the LabVIEW UI and VI are non-Unicode (do not support Unicode), which causes a conflict. If you select the Chinese locale, the Chinese VI content will display correctly, but the Japanese LabVIEW UI will be incorrect. Conversely, if you choose the Japanese locale, the Japanese LabVIEW UI will display correctly, but the Chinese VI content will be incorrect. This could also happen if you use Korean LabVIEW version as well.

 

NI recommend for customer to align the version of the LabVIEW with the VI content in respect to the locale setting. 
Using English Version of LabVIEW would be highly recommended as its UI is not dependent to any locale setting.

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