Hello All,

I occasionally used to log in to the Tom Go Server (duiyi.tom.com). Until recently I've been quite familiar with running the LiveBaduk executable in compatibility mode (Windows 2000) and through AppLocale to force it to Chinese language.

I recently started playing Go again after a break, and downloaded the latest version. The new software, which is now an .exe called "IGoSoul", looks very nice, but AppLocale doesn't seem to force it entirely into the right locale. Some of the text is in correct Chinese, but some areas of the interface are just garbled characters. I can't seem to find a combination of compatibility modes and AppLocale that makes it all pop up well. (This is on Windows 7 Professional, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.)

Does anyone use this software? Does anyone know on what systems it's supposed to run? Does anyone have a Go-playing Chinese friend who can give me more insight?

I also have a strange problem where, depending on which compatibility mode I'm in, the system seems to try and download some extra files. Mainly .dlls and .swfs. It almost always hangs on these indefinitely. At the moment I've had some success with it running in Windows2000 compatibility mode through AppLocale. That gets it to the main "server" window, with the character problems mentioned above. I imagine that it's usable, but apart from anything else I'm curious what people in China are doing. (I was under the impression that a Chinese-language Windows 7 would just be unicode. I thought we'd done away with all this per-region anguish.)

Any thoughts? Insights?

/T

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