Windows 10: My computer is showing various symbols instead of words. How can I fix this?

Some of my words have changed from words to symbols

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Symbols instead of readable words

Hi,

Welcome to Microsoft community.

This issue might occur if the document is corrupt or the file type is not associated with the right application.

I suggest you check if you are able to open in Word.

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  Download and save the document on the desktop.
  
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  Right click on the document, click on ‘Open with > Choose a program’.
  
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  Select ‘Word’ from the list of applications and click ‘OK’.
  
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  Check if the document opens up without any issue.
  

Let us know the status.

Regards,

Guru Kiran

 

Help! Data partition not showing under my computer

This is happening on a windows 2000 server. Our second partition of the system, for data is not showing under my computer. Here are the properties of it in disk management:





Now under logical drives its listed as F and shows free space available.

Suggestions on how to fix this?

 

Symbols instead of readable words

I do have the Chinese fonts installed on my computer and the problem still occurs, which is why it puzzled me. Anyway, I have solved the problem with another suggestion. I simply opened it with Word and Word converted the fonts using an encoding that will
make the words readable.

Thanks a lot.