German characters when installing German application

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I use English Language (United States), United States - International keyboard (sometimes it appears as EN, and sometimes as EN-International on the right of the Taskbar) and Region The Netherlands.


I have a DVD with a German program/application.

I have installed this application on several computers before without any problem.


I recently purchase a new desktop with Win 10 Pro and configured language, keyboard and region as usual.

When I installed the German program/application the German character ä (the character a with umlaut - 2 dots) did not show but a 'black diamond with question mark inside' (cannot find it in the Character Map) appears. I have seen that 'sign' in some email providers that are not able to display 'foreign characters' or it has to with a setting 'somewhere'.


After installing the German program/application, it would not start properly. To solve it I replaced all the 'black diamond with question mark inside' with the correct character ä in the respective program files and it worked fine.


However, it is a mystery to me why my new desktop it not behaving like all the other computers that also run on Win 10 Pro and the same configuration.

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