Link said:
Hi, IE6SP1, WinXP pro sp2 (rc1), I have "cyrilic"
language script selected, cannot be changed, as a result
IE and outlook are displaying wrong characters...ANY
idea ?
Sure. You mean that in Internet Explorer you go to
Tools/Internet Options, click on "Fonts" button and see
the following ('Cyrillic' script as a currently selected one),
right?
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/IEscript.gif
Then don't worry - there is *no* functionality behind that.
It can NOT affect IE's and Outlook's work with characters:
it's just a menu with single-line window to show an item from that
menu. Which item is shown - does not matter, it does NOT mean
that say Cyrillic is now you Default setting, not at all.
Again, it's just an item shown in that single-line window,
not any kind of setting.
By the way, Internet Explorer does not have any setting in
any place of its options to specify a Default
Character Set Encoding (unlike Netscape/Mozilla), so don't worry.
Now what can be the real reason for your problems?
1) IE showing wrong characters, for example, you go to
say German Web page but see Russian letters.
a) It could happen if you have Encoding auto-detect enabled -
in View/Auto-select. It is know to be buggy in that area, so
just disable it, remove the checkmark next to that option
b) another possibility can be the following:
- you have visited a Russian site that did specify that it's
Russian, so IE had Cyrillic as a current encoding in
View/Encoding
- now you decided to visit a German site and it's the site
(rare nowadays) that does NOT specify its encoding.
So IE just uses the encoding used for the previous page -
Cyrillic - and you see Russian instead of German
In such case just change the encoding yourself - by
going to View/Encoding and choosing the right one for the
current page
2) Outlook (MS Outlook or Outlook Express?) is a different story -
you need to know how to work with character encodings there -
please see the tune-up instruction for each of them in the
"Russian in Browsers/Mail/News" section of my site. It explains
Russian settings, but it's the same for any other character
encoding
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Regards,
Paul Gorodyansky
"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/
Russian On-screen Keyboard:
http://kbd.da.ru