Problem with accentuated letters

[Alex]

Hi everybody,
I'm using Windows in French on which is installed russian fonts and
keyboard. Everything worked perfectly until I installed a russian software.
Now I've a problem that a cannot solve for months : my letters with accents
(é ç à,...) are on some applications replaced with cyrillic letters ! I have
tried to undo the russian support and a lot of a other things but it doesn't
change anything.
I really have no idea what to do (except format the hard drive), so I you
would have any suggestion to help me it would be great.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Julie]

Try a System Restore!

Look in Help and Support.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Hi everybody,
I'm using Windows in French on which is installed russian fonts and
keyboard. Everything worked perfectly until I installed a russian software.
Now I've a problem that a cannot solve for months : my letters with accents
(é ç à,...) are on some applications replaced with cyrillic letters ! I have
tried to undo the russian support and a lot of a other things but it doesn't
change anything.

The Keyboard layout is set at Control Panel - Regional And Language
Options. Take the Language page and click Details.

You will now I think have two Keyboard layouts shown - the original
French one and the semi-cyrillic one. Select the one you want as
normal as the Default at the top, and also click 'Key Settings' where
you can set up a hot key combination for each - eg LeftAlt+Shift+9 for
one and +8 for the other.

OK out, clicking Apply wherever it is not greyed out.

Now if the russian package switches layout under foot (which appears to
be what happens) you have the combination handy to put it back instantly

 

[Alex]

Thanks but this is not the problem, because I noticed that this happens even
when the russian keyboard is not installed.
For example, when I want to record a Word file, if I type a name with
accentuated letters (ex : mémoire.doc) the "é" letter is replaced by a
russian one, where as I'm using the french keyboard.
Other example, in Acrobat Reader 5 : the menu appears well (I mean with the
accents), but if I stop the mouse on the icon "create PDF on-line file" and
this sentence appears in the yellow box, my "é" letters are again replaced
by cyrillic ones !
I really don't know where this come from !

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Hi everybody,
I'm using Windows in French on which is installed russian fonts and
keyboard. Everything worked perfectly until I installed a russian software.
Now I've a problem that a cannot solve for months : my letters with accents
(é ç à,...) are on some applications replaced with cyrillic letters ! I have
tried to undo the russian support and a lot of a other things but it doesn't
change anything.

The Keyboard layout is set at Control Panel - Regional And Language
Options. Take the Language page and click Details.

You will now I think have two Keyboard layouts shown - the original
French one and the semi-cyrillic one. Select the one you want as
normal as the Default at the top, and also click 'Key Settings' where
you can set up a hot key combination for each - eg LeftAlt+Shift+9 for
one and +8 for the other.

OK out, clicking Apply wherever it is not greyed out.

Now if the russian package switches layout under foot (which appears to
be what happens) you have the combination handy to put it back instantly

 

[Paul Gorodyansky]

Hi,

...
For example, when I want to record a Word file, if I type a name with
accentuated letters (ex : mémoire.doc) the "é" letter is replaced by a
russian one, where as I'm using the french keyboard.
Other example, in Acrobat Reader 5 : the menu appears well (I mean with the
accents), but if I stop the mouse on the icon "create PDF on-line file" and
this sentence appears in the yellow box, my "é" letters are again replaced
by cyrillic ones !
I really don't know where this come from !

Did you try to check what is your System Code Page?
It affects system files (used in programs' interface)
and file names...

In XP this setting is here and you should choose "French" there
(or if it's French currently, then change it to something else,
and then to French again to force XP replace system fonts
with "Western European" versions of them):
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/full_e.htm#XP