[Kalcor]

GTA SA is an ANSI program, it can't support Unicode. You can't force it to use Unicode either or it will crash. It can support non-English characters through the ANSI code page in Windows, and through UTF-8, but all players on the server must be using the same code page.

Maybe this helps?



There are also language packs (not Microsoft) you can install in Windows that will force programs to use Unicode. These will not work with GTA SA.