Display of non western locale data retrieved from MS servers is broken

[pbatard]

Did Microsoft change something on their servers?

This used to work fine before, but now when reporting the languages from a non western request (e.g. if you set $Locale = "ru-RU") you get unprocessed characters.

And it's certainly not with the ability of our script to display Unicode, as we have no trouble with field headers and whatnot:

[pbatard]

What do you know, this is an issue with the Microsoft servers.

If you visit https://www.microsoft.com/ru-RU/software-download/windows10ISO (and make sure that your User-Agent doesn't report Windows 10 as your platform) you will get this when trying to select a language:

Another very fine job here, Microsoft.

"Surely, the quality of software and services proposed by a large corporation such as Microsoft will always be way better than the quality of software and services provided by an Independent Software Developer"... 😄

[pbatard]

Looks like Microsoft finally fixed their servers → Closing.