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ChrisC333 · 03-16-2010, 01:22 AM

OK... some progress.

At least I've discovered how to change the settings so that it reads the 15 supported languages properly.

I just needed to find the right place to make the changes..... D'OH....

Now it's all in Russian, so lets hope I can figure out what to press to get it back to English again.

EDIT:

PHEW... that was interesting! Trying to navigate menu systems in Russian is a skill that I don't have. Fortunately I made the right guesses without stuffing anything up along the way.

The built in language choices are the 15 I mentioned plus Romanian.

With the language set to English it only gets some of the lines in your document correct. Some lines then have a few errors ( a sprinkling of ??? marks), but Russian, being a completely different script shows as all ????????s

However, once I change the setting the menu displays are fully functional, including Russian. At least it all looks OK - I don't read Russian.

So it seems that it can handle the languages one at a time, but won't mix different languages and display them all correctly - unless they use similar sets of symbols - which seems fair enough.

I'm not a linguist, so does that set look like it would be usable for a good spread of languages or are there any major omissions?

Hope that's useful anyway.

Chris

03-16-2010, 01:22 AM	#20
ChrisC333 Groupie Posts: 194 Karma: 2031 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: West Australia Device: Acer eM250 Netbook, iTouch, iRiver Story, HP TM2 Tablet	OK... some progress. At least I've discovered how to change the settings so that it reads the 15 supported languages properly. I just needed to find the right place to make the changes..... D'OH.... Now it's all in Russian, so lets hope I can figure out what to press to get it back to English again. EDIT: PHEW... that was interesting! Trying to navigate menu systems in Russian is a skill that I don't have. Fortunately I made the right guesses without stuffing anything up along the way. The built in language choices are the 15 I mentioned plus Romanian. With the language set to English it only gets some of the lines in your document correct. Some lines then have a few errors ( a sprinkling of ??? marks), but Russian, being a completely different script shows as all ????????s However, once I change the setting the menu displays are fully functional, including Russian. At least it all looks OK - I don't read Russian. So it seems that it can handle the languages one at a time, but won't mix different languages and display them all correctly - unless they use similar sets of symbols - which seems fair enough. I'm not a linguist, so does that set look like it would be usable for a good spread of languages or are there any major omissions? Hope that's useful anyway. Chris Last edited by ChrisC333; 03-16-2010 at 01:52 AM.