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Hello,
i'm using a german windows xp, but would like to use polish characters correctly in the mirc chat-window. Right now, every polish character i write is converted into a latin one. And every polish character i receive is nothing but a stupid symbol.
i tried to change font and font-style but i couldn't figure out how to make it work.

Is there any way to make mirc correctly show those characters even with a german windows?

thanks in advance
einhorn

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You could run mIRC inside the AppLocale utility that you can download from mircosoft.com, and set that to Polish - That would make your umlauts appear as garbage instead, though. Apparently a fix for this problem has been planned, without getting into too much detail.

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I've not messed with this, but perhaps loading the correct code pages into Windows would help? For example, I've loaded all the Asian code pages and now I can display Asian characters even in my browser's title bar (and various other places) where you normally wouldn't see it. Just a thought... I've never used a foreign Windows version, so not sure how they handle code pages or if it would help.


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Thank you alot. I found the place, where you can change the codepages. in XP there's a possibility to change the language for all programs, that don't support unicode. I changed it to polish with no problems. Even my "Umlauts" smile are still displayed correctly.

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Ok, I'm glad that was it and it's working for you. smile


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