> you may not have the language char set installed....
Yeah, I know, I just couldn't be bothered to type that bit, having already dones so for someone else a week or two ago.
Control Panel=>Add/Remove Programs=>Windows Setup=> tick Multilanguage Support, inset Win CD, install, restart Win. The the Cyrillic thing will turn crap into russian/hebrew/japanese etc. But it just turned 터㎪ into ЕН�ж which still looks like crap to me!
> > > > > chinese?japanese?other language?
> > > > it aint chinese or japanese or russian, I know that! And it's not hebrew either.
> > > It's ACSII (or whatever) obscure symbols. Here's a few: 뒹譬イ�. Try Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Character Map.
> > Yes I know that, but then what's the point of it? what's the 'test'? Is someone just seeing if they can type symbols in this forum, or have they tried typing in a foreign language, and found it doesn't come out quite as expected?
> > (If you were to post a message written in russian, it would look like a load of vowels with accents on top to most other ppl, unless they went to View=>Encoding=>Cyrillic)