[h-e-w] Re: Cyrillic, utf-8 and windows

[Roman Belenov]

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

> There seems to be a bug in the font handling of the Windows
> version. Courier New (the default font) has Cyrillic characters, and
> most versions of Windows support iso8859-5 - you can verify this: if
> (w32-get-valid-codepages) lists 28595, then it should be supported;
> so Cyrillic should display automatically. But I just checked and it
> doesn't seem to be the case.

The list of character sets supported by Windows can be customized (at
least in NT derivatives) via Control Panel->Regional Settings
("Advanced" tab). It seems that iso8859-5 is enabled automatically if
Russian locale is in use, but in other locales you may have to enable
iso8859-5 manually.

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                                                        With regards, Roman.