Can not Display Russian Text

[Jacques]

How do I display Russian text? When I receive an e-mail
from friends in Russia, the text in jumbled and
unreadable. This isn't because I can not read Russian but
the display of the text is not correct. How do I fix
this. I am using Windows XP Pro and I have already
included the Russian text in the control panel options,
the only thing I can think of it might be Outlook, can
onyone help?

 

[Bravestar]

Hy,

have you installed the whole Russian language from the
Office CD?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

define jumbled...

As long as you used all of the default settings when you installed it, it
should display in the Russian characters, provided the character set
information is not messed up by the mail server - look at the message header
to see if it has the correct character set.

 

[Paul Gorodyansky]

Hello!

How do I display Russian text? When I receive an e-mail
from friends in Russia, the text in jumbled and
unreadable. This isn't because I can not read Russian but
the display of the text is not correct. How do I fix
this. I am using Windows XP Pro and I have already
included the Russian text in the control panel options,
the only thing I can think of it might be Outlook, can
onyone help?

May be your correspondents did not tune-up their e-mail program
(for example, by default Outlook Express does NOT create MIME header
so your MS Outlook does NOT know what the encoding of the letter is)
or they used something like Yahoo!Mail where encoding is always
"Western" thus - incorrect for Russian e-mails...

Can you still read such letters? Yes, you can - in most cases.

Please see my "Russian in MS Outlook" instruction - it's in the
"Russian in Browsers/Mail/News" section of my site.


--
Regards,
Paul Gorodyansky
"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
http://RusWin.net
Russian On-screen Keyboard: http://Kbd.RusWin.net