Unreadable characters in PCS7 WinCC RT

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Alex3110
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Unreadable characters in PCS7 WinCC RT

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How to make all the words to be readable in English in WinCC RT of the «PCS7 Getting Started project (part 1)»

When I activate the WinCC Runtime application in the original (made in SIEMENS) "color_gs" «PCS7 Getting Started multiply project (part 1)» and open any faceplate, there are a lot of unreadable or random characters inside them (on the buttons, in the drop down check boxes, in the text fields).
Once I have opened the faceplate all the designations and texts are Ok and are in English, but just for 0,1…0,5 sec. only. After that some designations and texts become unreadable and/or have random letters of my native alphabet partly. Other designations and texts stay in English permanently.

Also there is one more strange thing that I have never met before.

When any *.pdl picture is opened in «Graphic Designer» and I press “View” (in the task bar) – Language – «Select Language» window is shown, then the list of available languages is also displayed with unreadable or random characters (without the letters of my native language).

I use WinXP 2002 Prof + SP3 . It is most likely a Russian version (localized ver-sions of Windows XP), because everything (“Start Up” panel, icon texts in the Control Panel, menus) is displayed in Russian even I set all the settings in the “Regional and Language Options” window to “English”.

In the Simatic Manager “Project properties” window :
- the project was created with STEP 7 v.5.4 + SP3 ;
the STEP7 project language is set to German ;
the checkbox “Can be opened under any Windows language settings (language neutral”) is activated .

Is it possible to fix the problem ?