Central/Eastern European characters get corrupted

Some users have experienced the following issue. When they confirm a translated segment, some of the Central/Eastern European diacritical characters get corrupt. For example in Czech "ř" changes to "ø", "č" changes to "è". This happens on computers that ever had an early version of Trados installed (any version before 6.5). Uninstalling or updating Trados does not solve the problem. Trados used to have a problem with displaying special characters of Central/Eastern European languages. For a long time, Trados did not issue a fix for this problem, but advised their users to work around it by changing a setting in the registry. This made the problem go away in Trados, but it is still causing problems in other applications like memoQ. The solution is to change this registry setting back to the original value.

1. From the Start menu, select Run.
2. Type in "regedit" (as shown, without the quotes). The Registry Editor opens.
3. Locate the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage
4. In this key, highlight the string 1252 (on the right-hand side in the registry editor).
5. Right-click on the string, and select Modify.
6. In the Edit String dialog, check Value Data. If it is set to anything other than c_1252.nls, change it to c_1252.nls. This is the original Windows setting before the Trados workaround.
7. Click OK to accept the change, and exit the Registry Editor.
8. Restart the system.