Why won't the editor display Chinese characters?

I can't figure out how to get the editor to display Japanese characters. If I enter the following in the command prompt:

'yyyy年 MM月 dd日'

The interpreted value returns as:

ans =

yyyy MM dd

The Chinese characters are ignored. This seems like unusual behavior to me. Even worse, if I save the text string in a file and re-open it, the Chinese characters are replaced by '?' marks. Is there a work-around for this?

[Oleg Komarov]

Try the following solution: https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/280988-how-do-i-get-my-matlab-editor-to-read-utf-8-characters-utf-8-characters-in-blank-squares-in-editors

Answer 1

[zahid jamal]

i just found other solution for that, you need open your code open with notpad++ and it will show you all other language comments

NOTE; i will not work with simple notepad ,,, so you need Notepad++

Link for the Notepad++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/

[Dan Mirea]

Respect bro, this info was really useful

[zahid jamal]

sorry i did not understand?

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/262114-why-i-can-not-read-comments-in-chinese-in-my-mfile

See also the "Internationalization" section of the R2016a release notes (currently at http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/release-notes.html#bu7uzdt )

[Keith Hooks]

I appreciate the help, but it seems like they other posters hit a dead end too. I tried changing my lcdata.xml file as below, but the changes aren't being recognized by Matlab on a restart.

    <locale name="en_US" encoding="UTF-8" xpg_name="en_US.UTF-8">
    <!--<locale name="en_US" encoding="ISO-8859-1" xpg_name="en_US.ISO8859-1">-->
        <alias name="en"/>
        <alias name="en-US"/>
    </locale>

Seems weird, right?

>> feature('locale')

ans = 

                 ctype: 'en_US.windows-1252'
               collate: 'en_US.windows-1252'
                  time: 'en_US.windows-1252'
               numeric: 'en_US_POSIX.windows-1252'
              monetary: 'en_US.windows-1252'
              messages: 'en_US.windows-1252'
              encoding: 'windows-1252'
      terminalEncoding: 'IBM437'
           jvmEncoding: 'windows-1252'
                status: 'MathWorks locale managem...'
               warning: ''

[Walter Roberson]

Which MATLAB version are you using?

[Keith Hooks]

I'm on 8.3.0.532 (R2014a).

Answer 3

[Gerald]

"Those Chinese comments in a M-file became strange symbols after re-open in Matlab Editor (even anyelse editors). The problem lies in the setting of "Standards and formats" setting of "Regional and Language Options". Set it to "Chinese (PRC)" and then the problem solved. Thus, it seems that Matlab read location information from this section and determine the lunguage with which it displays and stores contents."

from: http://yftian.blogspot.hk/2007/03/chinese-characters-in-matlab.html

[Paul McKenzie]

I'm not Chinese and I'm afraid that setting my locale to 'China (PRC)' will have all sorts of unintended (and undesired) consequences. How do I set a 'locale' that uses UTF-8 in U.S. English?

Answer 4

[Kin Sung Chan]

Well, I use VSCode to open the Matlab .m file, and resave with GBK encoding. (bottom right button of the VSCode interface next to Spaces) (Well, I try with different types of encoding, and only this one works)

After that, Matlab can display the Chinese characters with no issues.

[Kin Sung Chan]

[Zhibin Deng]

well, I tried this method. Not working for me. Every time I reopen the file, the enconding format changed backed into UTF-8.