Unicode text in EA showing as question marks

 

Hi,

 

I've started using the new classes in the Includes directory of MQL4 for my EA, particularly the CLabel class.

One problem I'm facing is that on my computer (running windows 7 Professional), I can add text to the CLabel object that is e.g. Russian and on my computer it will display the text as proper Russian. But if I have a friend of mine run the same EA on his computer (which is a laptop bought in Moscow that says "Windows 8.1 for one language") then the text comes out as question marks.

 

We've checked that his setting for non-unicode programs is set to russian (control panel -> region -> administrative -> locale) and his formats are also russian (control panel -> region -> formats -> format). 

 

 

Anyone else ever had this problem and got a solution for it? Is my friend perhaps missing specific fonts that my Windows 7 Professional has by default?

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Hein.