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

I have a bootable "Bob.Omb’s Modified Win10PEx64" USB device. It does not support Chinese characters, which will be displayed as junk characters. Is it possible to make it support Chinese?

Kyhi said:

The Chinese character set would have to be integrated into the boot.wim - this is usually done at the time of build...

Do you mean it is impossible to modify "boot.wim"? I just found the following article:
SOLVED: GUI To Add Files or Drivers To A .WIM Image File – Up & Running Technologies, Tech How To's

You could try adding these fonts to mounted pe :
meiryo.ttc
msgothic.ttc
malgun.ttf
msjh.ttc
msyh.ttc
simsun.ttc
and load pe software hive as pe-software. Then merge this reg file OLFS-SOFTWARE-win10-PE.zip

SIW2 said:

You could try adding these fonts to mounted pe

From where can the fonts be downloaded?

Code:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18362.30]
(c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>(bcdedit)|Find "locale"
locale                  en-us
locale                  en-us

I am running an English version of Windows, on which Chinese characters can be displayed. May I assume that Chinese character sets exist somewhere on my Windows?

Copy them from your win10 installtion, or extract from win10 installation media. For Korean, you might want gulim.ttc as well

For zh-cn, zh-hk,zh-tw I think these might be enough:
msjh.ttc
msyh.ttc
simsun.ttc

The reg file linked in my previous post needs to be merged into pe-software hive

SIW2 said:

For zh-cn, zh-hk,zh-tw I think these might be enough:
msjh.ttc
msyh.ttc
simsun.ttc

Would you be so kind as to tell me where they are?

Matthew Wai said:

Would you be so kind as to tell me where they are?

They are in the \windows\fonts folder, shockingly enough.

The foregoing is an adaptation of what I do when making win7 pe.

I can't tell you any more than that. That will get you most of the way. If anything else is needed, you will have to figure it yourself.

SIW2 said:

They are in the \windows\fonts folder

I just found one in "C:\Windows\WinSxS".



The above is for traditional Chinese characters.
The following are for simplified Chinese characters.



Hopefully, I will find more tomorrow.

SIW2 said:

For Korean, you might want gulim.ttc as well

I don't know a single Korean character.