UTF-8 supplementary characters do not display correctly

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Some UTF-8 supplementary characters might not be displayed correctly. You can install one of the East Asian language kits to resolve this problem.

IBM® Security Verify Directory supports UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format, 8-bit form) to use Unicode characters. UTF-8 contains MS932 (Shift JIS) characters plus supplementary characters that are not defined in MS932. Supplementary characters might be displayed as square box in Internet Explorer running on Windows™ 2000. See Figure 1.

Figure 1. Unicode code point U+9DD7 displayed as a square

This graphic shows the U+9DD7 character that is displayed as a square instead of a double-byte character.

If this problem occurs, install one of the East Asian language kits. Depending on your environment, install the Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, or Traditional Chinese language kit which is included in your Windows CDs. For example, Unicode code point U+9DD7 is one of the supplementary characters in the Japanese environment. With the correct language kit installed, the supplementary character is displayed correctly. See Figure 2.

Figure 2. U+9DD7 displayed correctly

This graphic shows the U+9DD7 character that is correctly displayed as a double-byte character.
Note: This problem was not observed in Windows XP.