Yeah i have that sometimes.... however, i needed this list for my language selector, in the next version the flags i provide will be locale specific instead of country specific, so a catalan flag will finally be possible.

Indeed you are right.. the original post was from before we came up with the new procedure though....

Hmm, that does not explain the fact that when i copy the list to excel (from the page source), all languages display fine. And the list in my original post also displays fine in my browser (its not an image). So there is nothing wrong with my system's capabilities of displaying foreign languages. What i meant is that in the dropdownlist some languages do not render correctly. Maybe thats a problem of the browser, maybe of the dropdownlist, maybe of my windows. Maybe there should at least be an option to change the way languages are displayed (for instance displayName instead of NativeName.

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Erik

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Phil, you're right on the fact that some names don't display well. I've always thought that if you can't se them well is because you don't have the appropiated languages support installed on the machine so this is actually not that of a problem. Even if you could see the name, trying to use it would cause you trouble.

If someone needs the Chinese language you can be sure he will be able to correctly read the name because he will have all the needed stuff on the machine to read it.

Have you tried to read that page http://www.microsoft.com/japan/ ? The same problem is here, and this is not an IE problem, but you don't having the correct support for the language. So I'm not that sure we should really bother by this issue anymore.

Providing a double list "Native name - English Name" doesn't seem very good to me, as you will see the same unreadable chars.