Hi Will, I was actually aware of the Russian Realspeak voice, but I thought that this would simply produce Russian Sounds, and not actually recognise the characters. Perhaps I should install it and try it out. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Matthews To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 4:36 PM Subject: [access-uk] Calling all language experts HI Guys, I'm imminently going to be embarking upon a Russian course, some of which is going to be in written form learning the alphabet etc. I'm a JFW 10 user, and I'm just wondering what exactly I need to do in order to get it to recognise the various characters...I presume I need to install Russian support using the standard tools provided by Vista? Currently when I encounter Russian letters, I get no feedback whatsoever, or in the case of a Webpage, I am informed that the characters are indeed Russian if the appropriate Markup has been used. If anyone has any experience of dealing with the Russian alphabet, or any other alphabet other than our vernacular Roman, any advice would be appreciated. Mark