running non-unicode program in win2k

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I have an old Finnish-English CD-Room dictionary. It works fine in Win2k
English version with Finnish keyboard. When I use it in Win2K-Chinese
version, problem occurred. I could not type in characters ö, ä, å, the key
stroke produced nothing, and words stored in the dictionary with these
characters could not be displayed properly within this program. But for
win2k itself or Office program, or even notepad, the input and display are
OK.

Within WinXP-Chinese version, if the setting in "control panel/Regional and
Language Option/Advanced: Select a language to match the language version of
the non-Unicode programs you want use" is set to Chinese, the same problem
occurred. But if I set it to either English or Finnish language, the problem
is solved. It seems, there is a conflict between Finnish and Chinese
codepage.

As far as I know, both win2k and XP support Unicode. But in Win2k, there is
no Language Option available in control panel for me to select language for
non-Unicode program. I am just wondering: is there any way or a registry key
to tweak this in Win2k?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Vince