Strange signs into avast Portuguese version (Brazilian)

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I was downloading avast and get redirected to a Brazilian site.
There were pros and cons (?) of using avast. (I really see no reason to host a file with cons… ::)).
But I was surprised that was written that the Portuguese translation has “strange” signs and letters changed.
I would like to ask if anybody found anything weird in the Portuguese translation of avast.

I found one: in the screen saver window, the slash "" of the paths are changed by a weird W.
Can you check that?

It does NOT happen in the command line version.

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By the way, why aren’t the cmd version strings translated? ???

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What? (I suppose your operating system isn’t switched to Japanese ;))… I’d ask you to make a screenshot, but I guess it might be hard to do with the screensaver… maybe take a picture of the monitor with a camera?

There are… for me.

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I could do that… but for what, you can test the Portuguese version in your lab…
Anyway, I’ll try.

Even the final results? Why mine are in English? Just because I had English + Portuguese installed?

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Yes, everything looks OK - ashCmd final statistics, the screensaver as well (and I have all avast! languages installed).

In Japanese fonts, the backslash character is shown as Yen sign… so I’m thinking maybe you’ve got some strange font substitution on your system, and the font used to draw the screensaver window is in Japanese charset… but it’s just a theory, I’d like to see the screenshot first - if possible.

What operating system is that, btw?

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I’ll upload a video to the ftp site called Recorder-03-12_084554.avi
By the way, you can see that the screen saver window is not translated also…

Windows 7 Professional 32bits in Portuguese (Brazil). Nothing in Japanese…

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Well, your avast! doesn’t really seem to be switched to Portuguese… English ashCmd, English screensaver (with a strange font at that)…
Don’t know what to say… the language should be written in the avast5.ini file (C:\ProgramData\Alwil Software\Avast5) as
Engine=1046 in the [Languages] section.
However, if the rest of avast! is in Portuguese for you… it would sound like different processes read different data from that file… ???

How about UAC - enabled?

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Igor, my fault (in part). The language was set to English.
But worse, when I set to Portuguese, the weird signs come even to the cmd windows.

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Yes… indeed.

[Languages]
Engine=1046

But why? I’ve set in the GUI Portuguese, and the GUI is in Portuguese. Do I need to boot? If so, this should be written in the help files and into the GUI settings (languages).

Which is the number for Portuguese there?

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1046 is Portuguese.
ashCmd (and the screensaver as well) are started as new processes, i.e. there should be not need to boot; once the number is in the ini file, ashCmd starts in that language. But let’s try it… there’s something strange happening there.

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Ok, waiting for your instructions.

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I mean, let’s try to reboot :wink:

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No luck. The screensaver is in Portuguese, missing accented characters. The cmd line is also in Portuguese, missing accented characters.

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Please download this file, put it into avast! program folder, run it from console and post the results.

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Test 1
CP: 1252, 850, 850
Loc: 1046, 1046, 1046
Test 2
CP: 1252, 850, 850
Loc: 1046, 1046, 1046
Test 3
CP: 1252, 850, 850
Loc: 1046, 1046, 1046
Test 4
CP: 1252, 850, 850
Loc: 1046, 1046, 1046
Lang: 1046

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Igor. Waiting for you.

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Everything is as it should be… sorry, but I have no explanation for this.

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It can’t be that way… did you try to install English + Portuguese to reproduce the error?
I’m on Windows 7 Pro Portuguese.
It’s strange… I see the errors all the time… What should I do?

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Igor, did you give up?

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I’m afraid I’m out of ideas… doesn’t make any sense.
Did you have avast! installed on that machine before? I’m quite sure nothing has changed about the locale settings problem (and especially not in two completely independent projects like ashCmd and the screensaver). Didn’t you change anything regarding the fonts on that system? (install new ones, …)