How to display Chinese characters in an English version of Windows PE.

Five font files for traditional Chinese characters have been found.

SIW2 said:

load pe software hive as pe-software. Then merge this reg file Attachment 273211

Do you mean creating a new key "PE-SOFTWARE" via the following command?

Reg load HKLM\PE-SOFTWARE D:\DISM\Mount\windows\system32\config\software

"PE-SOFTWARE" does not exist as shown below:

I mean load the software hive and giving it the name pe-software. Then merge the reg file. Then unload the hive.

Loading/unloading can be done via commands with reg.exe or manually with regedit and similar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdy9w3DCBSY

SIW2 said:

I mean load the software hive

Do you mean booting into Windows PE and loading the following?

X:\Windows\System32\config\SOFTWARE

Have I done it correctly?

1. Boot into Windows PE.
2. Copy "X:\Windows\System32\config\SOFTWARE" into "D:\Windows PE\PE-SOFTWARE"
3. Boot into installed Windows 10.
4. Run Reg load HKLM\PE-SOFTWARE "D:\Windows PE\PE-SOFTWARE"
5.

That looks ok. Merge the reg file and the entries should go into pe-software.

Then unload the hive.

FYI:

There is no need to boot into winpe to copy the software hive out. You can open boot.wim file with 7-zip file manager and copy anything out.

@SIW2

Code:

C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-f..e-microsoftjhenghei_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.1_none_379e287e5d4d6113\msjh.ttc
C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-f..type-microsoftyahei_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.18362.1_none_0d30b22bad51b979\msyh.ttc

msjh.ttc is for traditional Chinese characters.
msyh.ttc is for simplified Chinese characters.

Assuming only the two fonts are needed, may I simplify "OLFS-SOFTWARE-win10-PE.reg" as below?

Code:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\PE-SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts]
"Microsoft JhengHei (TrueType)"="msjh.ttc"
"Microsoft YaHei (TrueType)"="msyh.ttc"

All other keys and values seem irrelevant to msjh.ttc and msyh.ttc.

I booted into Windows PE. I copied all Chinese fonts from "C:\Windows\Fonts" into "X:\Windows\Fonts". I merged "OLFS-SOFTWARE-win10-PE.reg" without modification. Then, Chinese characters could be displayed in files. However, Chinese folder/file names could not be displayed in File Explorer. Can Chinese folder/file names be displayed on your Windows PE?

I just found a Chinese site for creating Chinese Windows PE. This thread can be marked as solved. Thanks for your help!