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windows xp greek characters problem


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jmarin

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hello again!

i ahve attached a photo showing my problem. A few words about it. I formated my pc and installed again the windows xp. English windows xp. I am greek... The problem as you can see is that in winamp and in other programs like winrar i can't see greek characters. As you in the photo i am listening to a song in which the artist and song are in greek and i cant see it. It is really strange that in some other albums that winamp have found the artist name and the names of the songs it shows the greek characters! Do u know what to do so my pc can support greek characters? In the regional settings my input languages are English (US) and Greek.
Looking forward to your reply!!

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zorba the geek

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Yasou jmarin
Can you write in greek characters? Open notepad and try to write something in greek.
I recently had to reformat my pc too,i also have XP english edition,when the same problem appeared.Somehow my greek font got missing.
Check your Fonts folder: Start>Settings>Controlpanel>Fonts,open the folder and see if the greek font (greek wsi)is there

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jmarin

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i can type greek but i didn't find the greek font. Only a font hellas something...

edit: i fixed it!

Edited by jmarin, 03 September 2008 - 05:21 PM.

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If you fixed it, would you please post the fix here so those that may follow this thread or have the same problem will have an idea of what to do? Thank you.
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of course! you go to the control panel, then regional settings and in the tab advanced you select greek in the first option which says to select a language to match the language version of the non-unicode programs
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