Dear all,

After many years I am currently switching to a new computer and upgrading from V. 4.70 to 4.80. I had 4.70 running on WIn 8.1 and new 4.80 running on Win 10. During this upgrade I am experiencing issues with Cyrillic characters in the folder names. I had that same problem in v4.70 under Win 8.1, but got it solved by switching to Cyrillic locale in Windows. However, now with Win 10 setting the locale to Cyrillic does not help anymore. I can type in Cyrillic just fine in the message editor, I can even correctly type in the folder "Rename" box, but in the list of folders the name appears as a garbage of accented characters. Problem is, I have literally hundreds of folders with Cyrillic names, which makes retyping them in English prior to the upgrade hardly practical. Is it known which font PM is using for folder names? Maybe I should consider replacing it? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Alex

The most likely one is the Windows system font as referred to here. It is not changeable in Pegasus Mail itself, only globally in Windows.

But for diagnosing the issue: Can you please provide a screenshot displaying the current view? It can be posted to this forum, see the button bar on top of its editor when typing your reply.

Thanks Michael, but apparently I was able to solve the issue. Pressing big "f" button in the top PM ribbon shows "Fonts in Preview mode panes". Under the "List of folders" (exactly where the problem was) it was set by default to:

MS Shell Dlg 2

Further investigation revealed that this was a logical Windows font which is supposed to be mapped onto locale-specific physical font containing the relevant set of characters. Mapping is done via the following registry entry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes

In my case MS Shell Dlg 2 appeared to be mapped to Tacoma font. Tacoma indeed contains Cyrillic characters, but apparently the mapping wasn't done right. Having not enough time to investigate this further, I discovered that simply setting "List of folders" font to MS Sans Serif 13 solves the problem. Checking other fonts revealed that for the most part the correct display was achieved with fonts having "CYR" in their names. However MS Sans Serif works too. In any case, it is a pity that PM doesn't support UTF-8 throughout like most modern applications - but then what one can demand from the free and otherwise excellent software?

Cheers,
Alex

Thanks for reminding me of this one, I totally forgot about its capabilities for setting dialog fonts.

I'm not really sure that this applies to Windows applications: Windows uses Unicode for its UI by default, so if you're coding using the Windows SDK you wouldn't use UTF-8 unless being forced to.