I tried out Cyberlink PowerDVD 5.0.  The install program displayed all its text as question marks and garbage text.  This normally happens if a font doesn't support extended characters (you get ?? instead), or if codepages don't match up (they don't use Unicode, and instead use a DBCS, which gives all the wierd looking garbage on my codepage).  Why, oh why, would a program that's supposed to be “multilingual” mess this up?

Turns out, my formatting settings are set to Korean.  Everything else is currently in English (debugging cryptic Javascript errors in Korean was too hard).  So the PowerDVD software decides that if my formatting settings are for a certain region, I must be using that language.  See the jump in logic?  Changing my regional settings to English (United States) makes it all good again.  Who codes this stuff?