Find Tab in Windows Help Uses System Default Character Set (182863)

SYMPTOMS

When you view the Find tab of a Windows Help file that uses a character set other than the system default character set on a computer with Multilingual Support and the appropriate keyboard layouts installed, you may experience the following symptoms:

• The list of keywords may contain entries that appear as all question marks(?) instead of characters from the appropriate character set.
• If you change the keyboard layout from the system default, text you typed into the "Type the word(s) you want to find" box may reflect the new keyboard layout, but not the new character set that corresponds to that keyboard layout. The system default character set is used.
• When you type the words from the appropriate character set using the appropriate keyboard layout, the text you type may not match the keywords in the list.

Note that text on the Index tab is displayed correctly, and text you type into the "Type the first few letters of the word you're looking for" box on the Index tab is displayed in the correct character set.

For example, if a Windows Help file contains text using the Cyrillic character set (code page 1251) that has been properly compiled using the Windows Help Compiler, Cyrillic text is not properly displayed in the Find tab. When you view the Find tab, Cyrillic text is displayed as question marks and typing text into the "Type the word(s) you want to find" box displays extended ANSI characters instead of Cyrillic when the Russian keyboard layout is used. This occurs even if Multilingual Support and the Russian keyboard layout are properly installed.