Why can I see Japanese?

without JP fonts installed

[KFish]

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Just out of curiosity and slightly out of topic question.

I don’t have Japanese fonts installed in my computer or browser, but when I opened the site I could see the Japanese text properly displayed in my browser.

Can anyone please tell the technology behind this?

Sorry if this is a silly question.

[bill]

A lot of Windows packages these days come with quite a few things included, like fonts that support Unicode characters. It's highly likely that you have this installed already. It's not always necessary to install a specific Japanese font to read Japanese these days. Unicode fonts can cover a number of character sets.

If you want to see the character support of a Unicode font in Windows you can access the font's Character Map like this:

Start ¦ Run

type "charmap"

press OK

select a Unicode font

[KFish]

Thanks Bill, Thanks a Lot.