# Chinese characters are displayed as boxes **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition Early Access\ **Created:** [April 9, 2019, 3:04am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chinese-characters-are-displayed-as-boxes/23947 "2019-04-09T03:04:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ivenwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecd19e/32.png) [@ivenwen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ivenwen)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 3:04am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chinese-characters-are-displayed-as-boxes/23947/1 "2019-04-09T03:04:00Z")
Chinese characters in the component property settings are displayed as boxes.How to solve this problem？ ![20190409110254](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/b/b921dcfeedf6f719278a273ca5c23fa061f6cbcd.png) ---
**Author:** ![KathyApplebaum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kathyapplebaum/32/7261_2.png) [@KathyApplebaum](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/KathyApplebaum)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chinese-characters-are-displayed-as-boxes/23947/2 "2019-04-09T13:29:19Z")
That’s a font issue – the font being used in the property editor doesn’t know how to display Chinese. What version (ie build date) are you using? We had some fixes for this recently, so I’m not sure if we missed one of the pre-done fonts, or you are using something from before the fix. ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chinese-characters-are-displayed-as-boxes/23947/3 "2019-04-09T13:53:26Z")
We don’t include the CJK fonts by default. See [this post](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-doesnt-support-chinese-well/23281/5?u=kevin.herron) ---
**Author:** ![KathyApplebaum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kathyapplebaum/32/7261_2.png) [@KathyApplebaum](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/KathyApplebaum)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chinese-characters-are-displayed-as-boxes/23947/4 "2019-04-09T14:58:06Z")
Oh, derp, Kevin is absolutely right. ---
**Author:** ![ivenwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecd19e/32.png) [@ivenwen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ivenwen)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chinese-characters-are-displayed-as-boxes/23947/5 "2019-04-09T15:10:33Z")
The version I am using is 8.0.0.20190407-1858, I also found that any place with Chinese characters is displayed as a box, such as alarm status component and alarm journal component.ect. ---
**Author:** ![jcoffman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jcoffman/32/6429_2.png) [@jcoffman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jcoffman)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chinese-characters-are-displayed-as-boxes/23947/6 "2019-04-09T15:19:00Z")
this is expected. If you install the Google Noto CJK fonts on your system they should be visible just fine. We don’t bundle them due to their file size. There is a helpful article [HERE](https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/cjk/) about these fonts and CJK. At some point we would like a more graceful way to deploy these fonts from the Gateway but we currently don’t have real support for this. Thanks, Jonathan C