"Can't open the illustration" problem because of composer

Hello guys
I had an experience and I want share with you
I was working on Japanese AI file and after I have finished it I tried open it again, it gives me "Can't open the illustration" massage.
After lot of research I found that if put any text box with middle eastern composer the file won't open again.
I am working on middle eastern version and I think the files were made in Latin or Japanese version.
Now I have question if I have corrupted file because of this composer problem and i want to change the composer without opening the file on illustrator (by changing the extension to txt and open it on text editor). what I should change to make the composer to adobe not middle eastern composer?
Sorry for my bad English

I thnk it is still the same problem but in this case it is with the scratch disk. I have a feeling that there is not enough continuous room on the scratch to handle this file even though it might appear that the fie is small compared to the size of the available space on the scratch.
Or what's behind door number two
Perhas it uses a font that is corrupt in that it is swelling the font data base which has become bloated.
Of course I could be wrong in both cases which means it is behind the mysterious door nuber three.
BTW did you try moving the Adobe Illustrator CS (#) Settings Folder?

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