Problem with Display Warning when Using Non-US Language

• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 3.5
• Microsoft Windows NT Server version 3.5

SYMPTOMS

The following message appears when you start the Display portion of Control Panel after you change systems language settings and restart Windows NT:

                        WARNING!

   There are no font selections available for your currently
   selected language setting. Font selections are only
   available for the English (Americain) language. Use the
   International option in Control Panel to change your
   language setting.

Steps to Reproduce Problem

1. Run the International portion of Control Panel and change the language setting to anything other than English (American).

2. Choose OK. Notice that there is no message indicating that a shutdown and restart must occur before changes can take place. You are simply returned to Control Panel.

3. Exit Control Panel.

4. Shutdown and restart Windows NT.

5. Run the Display portion of Control Panel and note the warning message referenced above. Notice that "American" is misspelled "Americain" in the warning message.

Summary of Problems in this Bug and Causes

1. Changes made to language settings don't take effect until the system is shutdown and restarted, but there is no message indicating this.

   Cause: The current release of Windows NT does not take this fact into account.

2. You can only use small fonts when selecting other English-based locales, such as English (Australian); otherwise, when you use large fonts you get the above warning message after changing locales.

   Cause: The current release of Windows NT contains only small font support for locales other than English (American).

3. "American" is misspelled (see step 5 above).

   Cause: Typographical error.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 3.5. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.