MY GMAIL HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY A CYRILLIC LANGUAGE

[Guest bigron2006@gmail.com]

I run my PC on XP Pro SP2 and use the email address

bigron2006@gmail.com as an alternate email address to cut down on

spam, etc.in my real life email

Recently it has somehow become corrupted and displays everything in a

strange, Cyrillic type language (except the email messages, which are

in English)

I tried reinstalling Gmail to no avail, and I cannot find a language

selector. I have also checked my settings in Regional Languages

(Control Panel)

Your help would be much appreciated.

 

RonaldThomas

 

Gosnells West Australia

17 July 2007

[Guest Shane]

Re: MY GMAIL HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY A CYRILLIC LANGUAGE

 

How are you accessing Gmail? Apart from online via Internet Explorer, do you

mean you read it with Outlook Express, ie is that what you mean by

*reinstalling it*? Can you read it online with Mozilla Firefox? What does it

look like *online* in one or both those browsers? Eg if okay, then we're

talking about purely an Outlook Express issue, are we not?

 

And - just out of interest - why are you posting an XP question to the

pre-eminent Windows Millennium Edition newsgroup?

 

 

Shane

 

 

 

bigron2006@gmail.com wrote:

> I run my PC on XP Pro SP2 and use the email address

> bigron2006@gmail.com as an alternate email address to cut down on

> spam, etc.in my real life email

> Recently it has somehow become corrupted and displays everything in a

> strange, Cyrillic type language (except the email messages, which are

> in English)

> I tried reinstalling Gmail to no avail, and I cannot find a language

> selector. I have also checked my settings in Regional Languages

> (Control Panel)

> Your help would be much appreciated.

>

> RonaldThomas

>

> Gosnells West Australia

> 17 July 2007

[Guest N. Miller]

Re: MY GMAIL HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY A CYRILLIC LANGUAGE

 

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:41:09 -0700, bigron2006@gmail.com wrote:

> I run my PC on XP Pro SP2 and use the email address

> bigron2006@gmail.com as an alternate email address to cut down on

> spam, etc.in my real life email

> Recently it has somehow become corrupted and displays everything in a

> strange, Cyrillic type language (except the email messages, which are

> in English)

> I tried reinstalling Gmail to no avail, and I cannot find a language

> selector. I have also checked my settings in Regional Languages

> (Control Panel)

> Your help would be much appreciated.

 

There is no way to "re-install" GMail; or even "install", or "uninstall" it.

There are two ways to access GMail:

 

1. Web Broswser (MS Internet Explorer, or other.)

2. Email client (MS Outlook Express, or other.)

 

For item 2 to work, the user must take some steps at the Google Mail site

(using the browser) to set up the account for client access. After which one

cofigures the email client for POP3/SMTP access.

 

For web browser access (I am looking at my account using Opera 9.21), at the

upper right of the screen, next to my GMail address, are three links:

 

Settings

Help

Sign Out

 

The Settings page has links, as tabs, across the top. On the General link,

the first item up is: "Language"; and a drop down menu with a list of

languages to select. Mine is currently set at, "English (US)".

 

--

Norman

~Shine, bright morning light,

~now in the air the spring is coming.

~Sweet, blowing wind,

~singing down the hills and valleys.

[Guest webster72n]

Re: MY GMAIL HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY A CYRILLIC LANGUAGE

 

 

There is a specific group where you can post your question with google

itself, but you must join, which shouldn't be a problem.

<H>.

 

<bigron2006@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:1184665269.164466.22040@x35g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

> I run my PC on XP Pro SP2 and use the email address

> bigron2006@gmail.com as an alternate email address to cut down on

> spam, etc.in my real life email

> Recently it has somehow become corrupted and displays everything in a

> strange, Cyrillic type language (except the email messages, which are

> in English)

> I tried reinstalling Gmail to no avail, and I cannot find a language

> selector. I have also checked my settings in Regional Languages

> (Control Panel)

> Your help would be much appreciated.

>

> RonaldThomas

>

> Gosnells West Australia

> 17 July 2007

>

[Guest webster72n]

Re: MY GMAIL HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY A CYRILLIC LANGUAGE

 

 

OOOOps...by the looks of it, this group doesn't exist anymore and I hadn't

noticed. It must have been omitted recently. Sorry about that. <H>.

 

"webster72n" <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:%23HaV1rJyHHA.1576@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>

> There is a specific group where you can post your question with google

> itself, but you must join, which shouldn't be a problem.

> <H>.

>

> <bigron2006@gmail.com> wrote in message

> news:1184665269.164466.22040@x35g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

> > I run my PC on XP Pro SP2 and use the email address

> > bigron2006@gmail.com as an alternate email address to cut down on

> > spam, etc.in my real life email

> > Recently it has somehow become corrupted and displays everything in a

> > strange, Cyrillic type language (except the email messages, which are

> > in English)

> > I tried reinstalling Gmail to no avail, and I cannot find a language

> > selector. I have also checked my settings in Regional Languages

> > (Control Panel)

> > Your help would be much appreciated.

> >

> > RonaldThomas

> >

> > Gosnells West Australia

> > 17 July 2007

> >

>

>

[Guest webster72n]

Re: MY GMAIL HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY A CYRILLIC LANGUAGE

 

 

For the 3rd time, I was right in the first place, just have to look for

it...

 

"webster72n" <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:OS56DOKyHHA.4516@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>

> OOOOps...by the looks of it, this group doesn't exist anymore and I hadn't

> noticed. It must have been omitted recently. Sorry about that.

<H>.

>

> "webster72n" <webster72n@gmail.com> wrote in message

> news:%23HaV1rJyHHA.1576@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> >

> > There is a specific group where you can post your question with google

> > itself, but you must join, which shouldn't be a problem.

> > <H>.

> >

> > <bigron2006@gmail.com> wrote in message

> > news:1184665269.164466.22040@x35g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

> > > I run my PC on XP Pro SP2 and use the email address

> > > bigron2006@gmail.com as an alternate email address to cut down on

> > > spam, etc.in my real life email

> > > Recently it has somehow become corrupted and displays everything in a

> > > strange, Cyrillic type language (except the email messages, which are

> > > in English)

> > > I tried reinstalling Gmail to no avail, and I cannot find a language

> > > selector. I have also checked my settings in Regional Languages

> > > (Control Panel)

> > > Your help would be much appreciated.

> > >

> > > RonaldThomas

> > >

> > > Gosnells West Australia

> > > 17 July 2007

> > >

> >

> >

>

>

[Guest cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

Re: MY GMAIL HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY A CYRILLIC LANGUAGE

 

It must be the RUSSIANS...

 

(obscure post-punk raving poet joke)

 

 

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the Halting Problem wins

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[Guest Shane]

Re: MY GMAIL HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY A CYRILLIC LANGUAGE

 

>> ---------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - -

> When Occam's Razor meets the Halting Problem,

> the Halting Problem wins

>> ---------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - -

 

No, Chris. It's *When stone meets stone, Collosus survives!*

 

And *What the...Wagner!*

 

 

Shane

[Guest cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

Re: MY GMAIL HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY A CYRILLIC LANGUAGE

 

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:43:21 +0100, "Shane" <shanebeatson@gmail.com>

>>> ---------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - -

>> When Occam's Razor meets the Halting Problem,

>> the Halting Problem wins

>>> ---------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - -

>No, Chris. It's *When stone meets stone, Collosus survives!*

>And *What the...Wagner!*

 

Heh - I thought of re-casting that tag in Stone, Paper, Knife context

(where Occam is the stone and the Halting Problem is the knife), but

thort I'd mixed enough metaphors already ;-)

 

(must... not... use.. same... tag... twice...)

 

 

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