Text won't inout properly after flash

[bulj]

I recently flashed my SPV E650 with a HTC rom (HTC_Vox_ARA_1.27.415.4_4.1.13.47_02.98.90.exe) and almost everything's peachier than it previously was with the ancient Orange ROM which was full of awful bugs. I have one minor problem however, I cannot input text! When I try to input text (browser, text message, contact name) via both the numeric keypad or the qwerty keyboard I just this oblong character, like a square O basically. I've seen this character before but only in code ie when you open a non text file in a text editor, a JPEG for example. I can get numbers just fine, both from the numeric pad from the keyboard, and I can get characters such as !,.& etc (I need to hold the function key to get these) from the qwerty, but alas no letters at all.

Can anyone help me resolve this issue?

[matrix77]

While writing SMS, push and hold "*" button, and choose "ABC" mode or change language.
http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/7030/textrv6.th.jpg (http://img116.imageshack.us/my.php?image=textrv6.jpg)

[bulj]

Aha! You are a star, thank you intensely. The input was in Arabic, the old regional settings trick at work has back fired on me, stupid boy! Thanks again matrix