How to localize Tidestone Formula One control in Chinese? - localization

In our VB6 component, we are using "Formula One OLE Control" which was created by company named "Tidestone Technologies, Inc..
We need to support Chinese characters, as part of localization activity of our software. However, unfortunately there is lack of documentation for this control and the company website just does not exists.
Tried out below code and F1Book just continue to display Chinese characters as question mark.
F1Book1.SetDefaultFontEx "Arial", F1GB2312CharSet, 12
F1Book1.SetFontEx "Arial Unicode MS", F1ChineseBig5CharSet, 12, False, False, False, False, OLE_COLOR, False, False
Any help for this is appreciated.

Chinese version of Windows OS itself needs to be installed for localization to work correctly for Tidestone Formula one control.

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