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O.P. Contacts with special characters in name
The name of one of my contacts is:
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At first this was displayed fine, however next time I looked at my contact list the special characters just showed up as squares:
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It appears that while Plus! is installed, the special characters turn into the squares whenever someone signs in/out. Closing the contact list and opening it again makes the characters display properly again.

Does this just happen with my computer, or is it a bug in Plus? I'm assuming it's a bug in Plus! as removing it makes the problem disappear, but it would be good to know that it's not just me it affects...


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Windows XP Service Pack 2 (5.1.2600)
Windows Live Messenger 8.5.0816
Messenger Plus! Live 4.23.0.276
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11-02-2007 12:27 AM
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RE: Contacts with special characters in name
Can't confirm.

Tested with fatfreechicken and nothing.
11-02-2007 12:34 AM
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RE: Contacts with special characters in name
Confirmed....I have that problem as well...I haven't tried without plus! but hopefully get around to it within about a week. I'm sure by then It will already be resolved :P

Edit: It appears that if an "e" is in the name it seems ro show up as a box...not sure about other letters.

Edit2: The "e" appears to be like έ

This post was edited on 11-02-2007 at 01:04 AM by MattyRid.
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11-02-2007 12:35 AM
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RE: Contacts with special characters in name
i suggest installing eastern languages support because that's japanese. this way you can have it properly displayed in many other apps too.

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/xpintlsupp.mspx
11-02-2007 01:04 AM
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RE: Contacts with special characters in name
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Originally written in FAQs - Messenger doesn't display a language properly, how to fix?

The problem can appear in Messenger only after installing Messenger Plus!, this is caused by a the way Messenger Plus! forces Messenger to handle its text and can be fixed the same way.

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11-02-2007 07:05 PM
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O.P. RE: Contacts with special characters in name
Yes, but I see the text fine with Plus installed....

It's just when someone signs in/out that it reverts to squares. And if it is this problem with Plus, why does closing and re-opening the contact list fix it?
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11-02-2007 07:10 PM
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RE: Contacts with special characters in name
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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
i suggest installing eastern languages support because that's japanese. this way you can have it properly displayed in many other apps too.

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/xpintlsupp.mspx
Spot on, we came across this before and installing eastern languages does solve it.
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installing eastern languages does solve it
That's what I was going to say... you need to change your language options to enable proper global support for eastern languages.
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11-03-2007 03:40 AM
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RE: Contacts with special characters in name
Still hasn't resolved my one though. Perhaps because it is ASCII could it be a contributing factor?

Edit: It seems to be contact list related..screenshot attached

Windows XP Service Pack 2 (5.1.2600)
Windows Live Messenger 8.5.0816
Messenger Plus! Live 4.23.0.276

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This post was edited on 11-03-2007 at 04:35 AM by MattyRid.
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