Go into the File menu of Adobe Reader Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Pro and choose Save As. Open the new file in NotePad or other reader and try to copy the characters from there. ordered-list Check out some other answers here about the Chinese language pack needing to be installed on your machine. Maybe that is the problem. If this doesn't work choose Properties from the File menu in Acrobat Standard Professional or the Reader and see which fonts are in your Chinese language file. Compare that to which fonts you have on your system and download or purchase the fonts that missing. They are probably True Type fonts that are missing from your system. Maybe they are in the PDF but when you look to paste them somewhere else your system does not know how to represent them. nYou can also try copying and pasting to Notepad first or opening the file you created in the steps above with Notepad but telling the program that the files are UTF-8 or Unicode not ANSI encoded.