Language detection problems with Japanese KANJI characters in PowerPoint 2003 presentations

When you work with Japanese KANJI characters, you may experience one of the following symptoms:

• When you open an .mhtl file that contains Japanese KANJI characters in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or a later version on a Microsoft Windows 2000-based computer, some characters may appear as a white square instead of the correct character.
• When you open an .mhtl file that contains Japanese KANJI characters in Internet Explorer 6.0 or a later version on any non-Microsoft Windows 2000-based computer, the text may not be detected in the correct language.
• When you copy plain text from another program such as Notepad and paste the text to a Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 presentation, Japanese KANJI characters are pasted as Chinese text instead of as Japanese text.

This problem may occur if the language auto-detection of five or more KANJI characters is incorrectly recognized as Chinese language characters.

This problem was first fixed in a hotfix that is now contained in a service pack. If you installed the latest Office 2003 service pack, you do not have to install the hotfix.

Service pack information

This problem is corrected in Office 2003 Service Pack 2.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Office 2003. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

After you install the service pack, follow the steps that are listed in the "More Information" section of the article to set the DisablePasteLanguageAutodetect registry key and to activate the hotfix.

Hotfix information

How to obtain the hotfix

This issue is fixed in the PowerPoint 2003 post-Service Pack 1 Hotfix Package that is dated September 22, 2004. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
After you install this hotfix, follow the steps that are listed in the "More Information" section of this article to set the DisablePasteLanguageAutodetect registry key and to activate the hotfix.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section. This problem was first corrected in Office 2003 Service Pack 2.

Warning If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.
Important note When you activate this hotfix, PowerPoint 2003 loses the ability to automatically detect the language for text that is pasted into the program. The text will be pasted in the same language as the default language setting of your Microsoft Windows operating system. For example, English text is pasted as Japanese text if you are using a Japanese version of Windows. If you have completed working with the .mhtl files, or if you want text to be copied and pasted in the correct language, change the DisablePasteLanguageAutodetect registry key value to 0.

To activate this hotfix, follow these steps:

1. Quit PowerPoint 2003.
2. Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK.
3. Locate and then click to select the following registry subkey:
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\PowerPoint\Options
4. After you select the subkey that is specified in step 4, point to New on the Edit menu, and then click DWORD Value.
5. Type DisablePasteLanguageAutodetect, and then press ENTER.
6. Right-click DisablePasteLanguageAutodetect, and then click Modify.
7. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
8. On the File menu, click Exit to quit Registry Editor.