Email in Russian

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I receive emails to my hotmail account written in Russian and the characters
are displayed as jibberish but I would like to read these emails.
Do I have to purchase special software to read these emails? Does Microsoft
have a download or are there special settings I can change?
Thanks...
 
That's could be a problem with your encoding settings. In IE7 go to Page,
Encoding and select what you need.
 
Mary,

Thanks...I have done that but it only allows me to type in Russian, not read
incoming emails in Russian characters...unless I am doing something wrong.
 
Thanks...I have done that but it only allows me to type in Russian, not
read
incoming emails in Russian characters...unless I am doing something wrong.
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Windows Vista handles Cyrillic languages fine out of the box, as long as
they're using Unicode. So my guess is this is down to how the e-mail has
been encoded.

Does the following webpage display OK (alphabet in upper and lower case)
http://www.windowsresource.net/cyrillictest.htm

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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Paul - I can read the alphabet in upper and lower cases. What does that mean
for me? Downloading software? Purchasing software?
P.S. I have actually been to Yeovil!
 
Lost in Siberia said:
Paul - I can read the alphabet in upper and lower cases. What does that
mean
for me? Downloading software? Purchasing software?
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It means your computer is working OK 8-) But something is either up with
Hotmail or how the e-mail is being sent.

Does this happen with all Cyrillic e-mails or just ones from a particular
sender?

You could try going to Control Panel -> Clock, Language and Region ->
Regional and Language Options -> Administrative -> Change system locale.
But I doubt if that'll have any effect on Hotmail but probably worth a try.
P.S. I have actually been to Yeovil!
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That's even more freaky than the other poster on here called Paul Smith. <g>

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Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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Thanks...I have made the location change to Kazakhstan. I will see if that
makes a difference. Do you have any other suggestions if this doesn't work?
 
Lost in Siberia said:
Thanks...I have made the location change to Kazakhstan. I will see if
that
makes a difference. Do you have any other suggestions if this doesn't
work?
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Unfortuneatly not, Hotmail is out of my field of expertise. I'd be willing
to e-mail in a few different character sets to see if there is one specific
one causing the problem. I used to run into things like that with Windows
98 and ME, but never with XP and up.

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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