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Why are most of my japanese texts looking like this ?

Mo_Shro0m

Momo's Minion
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I'm completely new, I followed Yuunarii's tutorials to set it up today.
I thought at first that it was only affecting description, and that I could keep using UTAU without any issues, but it seems to affect the lyrics too.
I downloaded iroiro2 for the lyric conversion, but no matter what romaji I try to convert, it always give me that same symbol. And Defoko stay mute when trying to play it.
I have no idea what to do and what kind of help I should search for, does anyone have any advice please ?
 

SaKe

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
This is a strange issue since this doesn’t look too much like Mojibake. Did you change your locale (not language) to Japan?
 
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Mo_Shro0m

Momo's Minion
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This is a strange issue since this doesn’t look too much like Mojibake. Did you change your locale (not language) to Japan?
I think I did, most of the tutorials I found about it are pretty outdated and I did my best to find the Windows 11 equivalent. Do you know how I could check please?
 

SaKe

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
I think I did, most of the tutorials I found about it are pretty outdated and I did my best to find the Windows 11 equivalent. Do you know how I could check please?
Did you set the locale after installing UTAU? That causes issues.
 

Mo_Shro0m

Momo's Minion
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Did you set the locale after installing UTAU? That causes issues.
No, I followed the first video in the playlist I linked. I added the japanese keyboard, did my best to find the right way to switch locale, then I restarted my PC and downloaded UTAU. Should I try to uninstall it and retry ?
 

SaKe

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
No, I followed the first video in the playlist I linked. I added the japanese keyboard, did my best to find the right way to switch locale, then I restarted my PC and downloaded UTAU. Should I try to uninstall it and retry ?
Did the button to switch your locale say ‘Change Encoding/Locale for Non-Unicode Programs’?
The reason why UTAU requires this is because it’s really old and isn’t in Unicode, since it was only designed for a Japanese audience.
 

Mo_Shro0m

Momo's Minion
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Did the button to switch your locale say ‘Change Encoding/Locale for Non-Unicode Programs’?
The reason why UTAU requires this is because it’s really old and isn’t in Unicode, since it was only designed for a Japanese audience.
Oh it didn't, I might've not switched the right setting then, thank you! I'll go look for it.
 
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SaKe

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
Oh it didn't, I might've not switched the right setting then, thank you! I'll go look for it.
It’s not in the Windows 11 settings menu- it should pop up in a white box that I’m pretty sure says ‘advanced settings’.
 
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Mo_Shro0m

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It’s not in the Windows 11 settings menu- it should pop up in a white box that I’m pretty sure says ‘advanced settings’.
I was able to find it and everything is working normally now, thank you so much for your help! Have a nice day/night!
 
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