Quote Originally Posted by Pocus
Edit: You are right, but this is not installed automatically when you choose to switch to Russian and Russian keyboard. You have also to specify in Regional Settings/Advanced Options which language to use for non-unicode programs.
At some point I've actually decided to write about this, but... you are setting "Charset" property to "RUSSIAN_CHARSET" and this [as I've thought] should remove the need to force "non-unicode programs" charset to russian...