Shape(.shp) file for China country is showing garbled characters in TIBCO Spotfire Analyst.

Shape(.shp) file for China country is showing garbled characters in TIBCO Spotfire Analyst.

While loading the shapefile for China country map from a third party vendor i.e. GADM(https://gadm.org/download_country_v3.html) inside Spotfire Analyst, Chinese characters are displayed as garbled characters even after applying the Chinese language pack. Below is the screenshot for the reference:

To resolve this behavior, you need to set the System locale to Chinese.

To set it, follow the below steps in Windows:

1. Open the Control Panel -> Clock and Region/Region -> Administrative tab -> Change system locale... button -> set Current system locale to Chinese (Simplified, China).

2. Restart the machine and launch the Spotfire Analyst.

3. Now the Chinese characters are displayed correctly, below is the corresponding screenshot:



Note: After the computer restarts, we need to recreate the analysis file so that the Chinese characters are not garbled anymore. The existing DXP/analysis file will still have the garbled characters because that's how they were saved before setting the system locale properly. https://gadm.org/download_country_v3.html