What is this nonsense?

[PaulG_CS]

I've made a thousand applications and have never seen this before. Why is my menu garbled? It should be in English.

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

The very first thing needs to be checked is the language for non-unicode progs, should be English for your case:

This change will take effect after restart (or logoff/logon).

[PaulG_CS]

Not the problem. My settings are correct.

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

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@PaulG_CS wrote:

Not the problem. My settings are correct.

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OK, if these menu items are you own (loaded from external file), then it could be wrong encoding.

I definitively have seen something similar. Which captions are expected and correct, by the way?

[JÞB]

 

What version of LabVIEW is that?  The Icon (Top left) looks very old.

[PaulG_CS]

V2023 Q1

[PaulG_CS]

 It should look like this. This is a vanilla application with vanilla settings.

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

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@JÞB wrote:

 

What version of LabVIEW is that?  The Icon (Top left) looks very old.

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No, it is modern, this is how app from latest LV2024Q3 looks like (don't remember at which version the icon was changed):

I can easily reproduce this "issue" with Cyrillic characters (above is string "Файл(F)" means File(F) in OEM-Cyrillic encoding), but author did't mentioned that other than English chars was used.

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

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@PaulG_CS wrote:

 It should look like this. This is a vanilla application with vanilla settings.

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Interesting fact that "File" was converted to <garbage>(F) as well as other standard menu. Looks like something wrong with regional settings and LabVIEW Runtime wrongly detected OS language and turned to Japanese, Korean or Simplified Chinese instead of English - this could explain presence of (F), (E), (O) etc. 

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

Got this reproduced:

It is Simplified Chinese (and 32-bit LabVIEW, by the way)

Check preferred language setting here:

(For me default menu appeared in German).