Can the data viewers display Chinese characters?

Is there a way to change the font that the data viewer uses, so that the Chinese characters don't appear as boxes?

The data viewer displays Chinese characters as boxes, something similar to [_], at least on a computer with the following regional settings.

get-wmiobject CIM_OperatingSystem | ft OSLanguage, CodeSet, Locale

OSLanguage CodeSet Locale

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The data itself is flowing correctly into the target database with a pipeline data_type of DT_WSTR. The ideograms can be seen by query utilities which supports a unicode font (e.g. Management Studio).

Yes, follow
Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors, then
select Show settings for: Business Intelligence Data Viewers.
Now select the font you want to use.|||Thanks a lot Michael, works great.

Can the data viewers display Chinese characters?

Is there a way to change the font that the data viewer uses, so that the Chinese characters don't appear as boxes?

The data viewer displays Chinese characters as boxes, something similar to [_], at least on a computer with the following regional settings.

get-wmiobject CIM_OperatingSystem | ft OSLanguage, CodeSet, Locale

OSLanguage CodeSet Locale

- -

1033 1252 0409

The data itself is flowing correctly into the target database with a pipeline data_type of DT_WSTR. The ideograms can be seen by query utilities which supports a unicode font (e.g. Management Studio).

Yes, follow
Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors, then
select Show settings for: Business Intelligence Data Viewers.
Now select the font you want to use.|||Thanks a lot Michael, works great.

Can ReportViewer save report to another format?

Now Report Viewer can save report to xml and pdf format.

Can it save report to another format? e.g word, text

This depends on availability of renderers.
Currently no, in future versions - yes, likely

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yes it's possible, however you have to write your own report renderer. Please read this link http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/02/CustomRenderers/ for more info.