> > 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 Åͧæ into ЕН§ж which still looks like crap to me!

bugger, that came out wrong. It didn't become ЕН§ж it became something like EH§ then a symbol which is not ascii.

> > > > > > 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: µßÞ§«¤¥. 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)