Text document written in cyrillic alphabet

Ok so I've downloaded this subtitle written with cyrillic alphabet… it shows just like it should when i load it in a movie player however when I open it with notepad or wordpad there are these weird characters… I was at a friend's house and when he opened the subtitles they showed up just like they should be(in Cyrillic alphabet). Now I thought this might be a Windows 7 problem(friend has xp) so I tried opening the subtitles on a virtual machine where I have win xp installed but still the weird characters showed up.

When I try to open it with windows word it asks me for encoding, I choose Cyrillic and it shows fine… [rage on] WHAT'S UP WITH NOTEPAD AND WORDPAD WHY THEY CAN'T SHOW THE SUBTITLES IN CYRILLIC ALPHABET LIKE AT FRIEND'S COMPUTER????????[/rage off].

Not really an issue but I'm that kind of guy…. I must know what's the problem!!!!!!!!!

P.S. In case someone wants to try for himself, here's the link to the subtitles(note you must make a difference between weird characters and cyrillic alphabet… and if you don't know the cyrillic alphabet, it might show up as weird to you )

After messing around some more with the problem, I found the culprit!
It was this little bugger right here!

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I just had to change the language for non-unicode programs from english to my language.

Nice one, uchkur. You'd think Microsoft would make stuff like this easy…but it's never the case. Cheers, Nahumi