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?? ?????? ???

Started by Programmer One Mar 7, 2002 at 8:31 PM 10 replies 300+ views

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Programmer One

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Programmer One

Mar 7, 2002 at 8:31 PM

"?? ?????? ???" is the exact message I get sometimes when I close an application. A message box pops up, and it has "Yes, No, Cancel" buttons, the title is the same as the message "?? ?????? ???". This does not happen to all programs, it only happens with the following software: MS Paint Word Pad MS Word MS Excel MSVC++ MS VisualBasic NTI CD Maker 2000 Plus ...there are some I can''t remember at the moment. This happens ONLY if I don''t save my work. Sometime if I don''t save my work, it will ask nicley "Do you want to save changes?" I am running Windows XP Pro.

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Programmer One

Mar 7, 2002 at 8:55 PM

here are a few more...

PowerDVD
Adobe PhotoDelux 2.0
MS DirectMusic

Liquid Darkness

Mar 7, 2002 at 9:51 PM

lol
maybe a virus..

Thats not a microsoft error f00...

Hitchhiker90

Mar 7, 2002 at 9:57 PM

I was thinking a virus also. Go to symantec''s website and you can do a virii scan online. It won''t clean it tho.

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Pouya

Mar 7, 2002 at 10:36 PM

Do you have a Russian version of Windows installed by any chance?

I saw those things in the titles in a program that was using the cyrillic fonts.

DeltaI

Mar 7, 2002 at 11:01 PM

I''ve had that same message come up in Win98, but it was so long ago I forgot what I was doing when it came up.

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Programmer One

Mar 7, 2002 at 11:15 PM

Virus Scan: No virus found
Windows version: English

What the heck could this be?

Dracoliche

Mar 8, 2002 at 3:35 AM

That happens not just with Russian, but with any Unicode character not in ANSI. Unless the program in question has Unicode support, Windows substitutes question marks for characters outside ANSI.