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VLC media player 0.9.0-svn Grishenko
After VLC running, only see the vlc title and icon on menu,letters on meun is not displayed. Why?
Whether I lose compiling something , like font library??
Thanks a lot.

Languages

VLC uses the fonts installed on your system for your language! The default is the installed language.

This can be changed in Preferences, Interface from the pull down select your language. But you probably can't see this.

So open a DOS box and type: CD "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC" Then type: vlc --language en for English or fr for French

Syntax: --language {auto,en,en_GB,ca,da,de,es,fr,it,ja,ka,ko,nl,oc,pt_BR,ro,ru,tr,
zh_CN,zh_TW}

When VLC opens check to be sure you can read the menus and then open Preferences and press "Save" then close the player.

If you are still having problems with your preferred language you will need to reinstall that language within Windows so that it will fill in the missing or broken fonts in your system.

Just thought about the forum I'm in. Hope your system is Windows But if it isn't I'm sure someone here will help you get going.

Thank DJ,
But my system is linux (fc4)

You don't have directories or a command line structure in Linux???????

Sorry, There have the directory and command lines, but no the
--language option, only has --sub-language for video.

In windows system, I follow your advice, it works fine now, Thanks DJ.

But In linux system, I think that there maybe lose some configuration for vlc, but I am not find it currently.

By a way, I recompile vlc source code that download from svn in linux system, so I also doubt some source or some library not be installed.