Technical issue reading foreign texts... help

Hi,

I am currently trying to get my English Vista Home Premium to read foreign texts without showing me all the gibberish broken texts. I was able to view web texts in Korean thanks to Microsoft IME (Easily selectable from control panel) and I can type in Korean. My computer, however, still has a problem reading some Korean texts. For instance, (computer noob, don't know a lot about technical terms) I still won't be able to read Korean texts found in Korean programs. If I was to open a notepad format filled with Korean texts, it would be viewed as gibberish from my computer. Any Korean texts outside of internet and MS Word comes out gibberish.

I've surfed this forum a bit, and I think I need to upgrade to Ultimate to do this. However, I do remember running into someone who had English OS and still can view any Korean text. (Possibly due to a software?) I heard many issues upgrading from Home to Ultimate, and I really don't need any other features other than simply reading Korean texts.

If you got any ideas, please reply. Thanks in advance...

Sincerely,

pekau

I have used XP a lot in Korean mode, but not so much Vista. I'll have a look at my Vista machine later though and see if I can come up with a way to help you.

In XP you basically have to set your machine up in Korean via Regional and Language Settings (in Control Panel) to do what you refer to (open edit / create text files and see Korean text instead of other ASCII characters) but as I've never tried it in Vista, I don't know if the same options exist

Just figured out. Select Regional and Language Option in Vista Home Premium and click Administrative tab. You simply have to change the Current language for non-Unicode programs from your OS' language to something else. It works flawlessly for me.

One issue that some other people may have is that it can only choose one non-Unicode pogram. If you get Ultimate, I think there may be more options... but that's my guess.

Thanks anyway for your response, judge1974.

Cool, glad it's working