Dreamweaver CS4 auto-detects the language for non unicode programs in windows, in my case it is russian, and conviniently sets the default encoding to be western european instead of the much preferred utf-8, it also changes several bits of text in DW into russian.
how do i disable this detection and maintain Dreamweaver in full english? (without having to change the language for non-unicode programs in windows)
As detailed here, you should be able to set the default encoding to UTF-8 (preferably without BOM) in the Preferences. I don't think this is affected by the system codepage.
The system-codepage-sniffing to change UI language is sad. I'm seen this commonly in poorly-written Japanese programs, but for DW to be doing that too is disappointing. Applications that do this need to be taken outside and shot. To get around it, you can use apploc to change the codepage a particular application sees when it runs.
