Hey, Need help with Win XP SP2, Character encoding (greek)

Discussion in 'Bing' started by MakeSens, Jan 12, 2008.

  1. #1
    hey guys, i have a serious problem that's making my nerves go die, so, i had a greek windows here and now installed an english one, and i cant open any image (or any other file) that's name is written with greek letters, I mean i see the greek letters as they should be but cant open. I gonna attach a screenshot how does it look like.


    http://www.makefreemoneyathome.info/xp.JPG click this url to see the pic.

    Thanks in advance, really need help!
     
    MakeSens, Jan 12, 2008 IP
  2. wisdomtool

    wisdomtool Moderator Staff

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    Maybe you can try this out, try to rename the greek characters files into english charset and try to open again.
     
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  3. MakeSens

    MakeSens Peon

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    Ok, I try to chill now and ignore what you wrote, seriously, i need help, not this, I have like 2000000 files with greek name, would you be so kind as to rename them ALL ? TY /hug
     
    MakeSens, Jan 12, 2008 IP
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    inatmo Active Member

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    Try to look for support of Greek coding in Control Panel -> Language and Country settings.
     
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    DontShutDown.com Banned

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    Sorry to say
    but Do format and do fresh installation of XP
     
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    Yeah just rename the files with english characters the system should recognize it then
     
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    I just did format and installed new english xp and installed all greek characters in regional settings but still, and i cant rename all the files, there's too many
     
    MakeSens, Jan 13, 2008 IP