can't run CDs in Russian

[Guest joe]

Every time I put Russian CD (game or something), all Russian letters change

to characters ???##==$???. I have added Russian to "Text Services and Input

Languages" with no success.

 

Thank you for your help

[Guest Malke]

Re: can't run CDs in Russian

 

joe wrote:

> Every time I put Russian CD (game or something), all Russian letters change

> to characters ???##==$???. I have added Russian to "Text Services and Input

> Languages" with no success.

>

> Thank you for your help

 

It sounds like you are missing Cyrillic fonts.

 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Cyrillic+fonts+site%3Awww.microsoft.com&btnG=Search

 

 

Malke

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[Guest Paul Randall]

Re: can't run CDs in Russian

 

 

"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message

news:eGMr3d9zHHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

> joe wrote:

>> Every time I put Russian CD (game or something), all Russian letters

>> change to characters ???##==$???. I have added Russian to "Text Services

>> and Input Languages" with no success. Thank you for your help

>

> It sounds like you are missing Cyrillic fonts.

>

> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Cyrillic+fonts+site%3Awww.microsoft.com&btnG=Search

>

>

> Malke

> --

> Elephant Boy Computers

> http://www.elephantboycomputers.com

> "Don't Panic!"

> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

 

Web pages typically specify the charset to be used. The OP hasn't stated

whether he gets the correct characters when web browsing to sites that use

the Russian language. If he does get the correct characters, then it is not

a font problem.

 

I think it is a locale problem. I think the Russian CD, like most older

software, just assumes it is being run on a computer where Russia is the

default locale and Russian is the default language. WXP can be set up with

many different locales being the default. I've seen recent suggestions

elsewhere in this newsgroup or the Vista general newsgroup on how to do it

but no confirmation that they work.

 

-Paul Randall