Hi,

I'm revising an existing report which was developed by my predecessor. Though it works fine in the production environment, when I open the .rdl file with SQL Server Business Intelligent Studio (Visual Studio) 2008 on my client PC, I find all the multi-byte characters are garbled. When I open it with the BIDS (the same version) on the server, it shows everything correctly.

The fonts for the controls (labels) are Tahoma and it's originally only for alphabets, but multi-byte characters are supposed to be displayed in MSGOTHIC by Font Link as they are displayed correctly on the server.

Could anyone advise me how to solve this issue? I know I can fix it by changing the fonts from Tahoma to MSGOTHIC for all the contrls, but I don't want to do it.

Environment:

My PCWindows7 64bit /Visual Studio 9.0.30729.1 / .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

ServerWindows Server 2003 R2 /Visual Studio 9.0.30729.1 / .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Garbled characters sample:

FontLink - SystemLink

Please let me know if you need any more information. I would appreciate your advice!

Hi nino_miya,

According to your description, when you display the report in client side, characters are garbled.

In your scenario, please check if the Language is the same as the report on production server. Also please check if the data of Tahoma in registry on client PC is the same as server. If those two settings are the same, please specify font of the each control as MSGOTHIC manaually on client PC.

If you have any question, please feel free to ask.

Best regards,
Qiu

Hi Qiuyun Yu,

Thanks very much for your advice!

I tried both of the first two solutions and found neither of them worked. I would like to regard the third one as the last resort, so let me wait a little more for more advices.

Any advice would be appreciated!