Barry,
Other complications developed (unrelated to the previous problem), which led
me to start over and just format my hard drive. So far the problem has not
returned. But thanks for your help.
--
Myriam D.
"(E-Mail Removed)" wrote:
> Myriam - I had the same problem, probably caused by some trojan or
> hijack. After much troubleshooting, I found the solution which is:
> Control Panel - Regional Options - Advanced - Code Page Coinversion
> Tables - Uncheck 21866 (Ukrainian - KOI8-U) - restart windows. The
> KOI8-U seems to have been the problem with me. I hope this works for
> you. If not uncheck others until problem disappears.
> Best regards,
> Barry
> PiXeL PiRaTe wrote:
> > In Internet Explorer, pages with special characters, such as letters with
> > accents when I visit French pages, cannot load correctly. The proper
> > characters are replaced by Cyrillic ones.
> >
> > When I go to IE's Tool menu, under Tools|Internet Options|Fonts, the
> > Language Script is set to "Cyrillic". Every time I change the setting to
> > "Latin based" and click OK and then OK once more to close Internet Options,
> > nothing ever happens. Pages still load with Cyrillic characters. Upon
> > returning to the Language Script setting, I find it is back to "Cyrillic"
> > rather than "Latin based" as though it never saved my change at all.
> >
> > Recently I discovered that whatever is causing this problem is also
> > affecting special characters within MS Office applications. For instance,
> > when I wrote a Word doc while the language is set to French, spell check will
> > mark the words that have accents as wrong and the suggested spellings have
> > those strange Cyrillic characters in the place of the proper French
> > characters.
> >
> > I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling IE. Upon contacting my computer
> > manufacturer, I was advised to try uninstalling all MS Office apps and then
> > try changing the IE settings, since MS Office language settings can override
> > IE language settings. This did not work. When the problem first presented
> > itself, I ran System Restores repeatedly to no avail.
> >
> > I have run virtually all anti-virus programs in search of possible
> > infections, such as Norton, McAfee, Computer Associates, Panda Software,
> > TrendMicro, and others, and have come up PRISTINE clear every single time.
> >
> > I've had this problem for months, and can not find a solution anywhere.
> > Please help me!
> >
> > --
> > Myriam D.
> >
> > I'm running:
> > Windows XP Pro SP2 (Embedded)
> > Internet Explorer 6
> > MS Office 2003
> > Microsoft AntiSpyware
> > McAfee Anti-Virus
> > Microsoft Office 2003 Desktop Language Settings (Add-In Tool which allows
> > one to change Language Settings for Windows and Office applications from one
> > convenient panel, which I installed a few hours ago)
>
>
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