Technical issues with Heroes III.

Yes, "Heroes 3" was released when Windows did not yet use Unicode encoding (specifically, in Windows 95/98/ME), and the Russian version of Windows used the Win-1251 encoding. This still manifests itself today when you need to copy Russian text from the map editor into Notepad, a translator, or somewhere else: sometimes the pasted text looks incorrect. You have to use an online service for transcoding, and the text becomes readable.