you would think that if gta iv uses the CP1252 codepage (the standard windows 8-bit encoding for western european languages) for encoding its texts, then an official russian translation of the game would use its cyrillic equivalent, CP1251
you'd be wrong
instead, it has a weird hybrid system that has russian characters, some formatting characters, even an occasional ü just to render someone's last name in the credits... #gxter #GrandTheftAuto4 #gta4