Question about search in TXT files

In start: Windows 8 Enterprise US on one PC, Windows 7 Prof Russian localized on another PC, bunch of ANSI-format TXT files with non-US language content (Cyrillic 1251) in folder on USB-flash.

On Windows 7 PC Windows Explorer search field find russian words inside ANSI .txt files and showed (with citation) in results.

On Windows 8 PC Windows Explorer find nothing when enter russian words in search field, on same files.

When enter a numeral or latin string - on both machines search field work well.

That was tested&ampchecked:

Install language pack and select Russian as locale for non-Unicode programs in language preferences - nothing.

FINDSTR from command-line - nothing (same as in Windows 7 though)

Select-String PS command - nothing (again same as in Windows 7)

Enable 'Always use automatic language detection when indexing' in Group Policy - nothing

Is there a way to teach Windows Search for non-system embedded language searches? Or we still need to wait Windows localization teams 'hacks' for such trick in language-targeted Windows releases?

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