BUG
** This issue is addressed in ArcGIS 9.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) **
ArcMap crashes when converting vertical Japanese labels to annotation.
Maps containing a large number of Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) characters rendered with CJK-character orientation may cause the ArcMap application to crash or become unresponsive during map display and output or during conversion of labels to annotation.
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