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Posted by infinity HiGH on Apr-12-2003 20:54:

question about WinXP and different languages

Does anyone know how to set Windows XP so it can display characters from other languages? More, specifically, Polish. Whenever I get an email from someone from back home, every letter that can't be displayed because of accents on them is displayed as a number, or weird looking line, or something like that. it's annoying.

Can anyone help me out? thanks

Posted by cheesenip on Apr-12-2003 21:59:

do you need international language viewing suppport for solely e-mail? There is a download to view different languages for Outlook Express. I think it is for Office XP. I'm too sure.

I just checked. I only found Japanese, Chinese, and korean capabilities.. sorry

Posted by k.k.d. on Apr-12-2003 22:46:

First, you need fonts installed for the character encoding in question (or unicode)...

Basically, a second step would be going into Regional & Language settings -> advanced, and select your language (in your case - polish) under "non-unicode setting"...

Third, in a program you use to view whatever text that is unreadable by you, in fonts you must change the script used from "Western" to an appropriate one.. and voila

Posted by infinity HiGH on Apr-12-2003 23:45:

thanks a lot k.k.d

Posted by igottaknow on Apr-13-2003 04:56:

i researched this for a chinese friend who wanted the entire Windows OS in chinese. Surprisingly you have to purchase and install new version built for that language. Microsoft likes to brag how advanced they are, seems ridiculous you can't simple change the language.

Posted by ali92 on Apr-14-2003 00:26:

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Originally posted by igottaknow
i researched this for a chinese friend who wanted the entire Windows OS in chinese. Surprisingly you have to purchase and install new version built for that language. Microsoft likes to brag how advanced they are, seems ridiculous you can't simple change the language.

I think u CAN just change languages in Linux, :-) ! I think the reason why in Win u can't change anything other than what the numbers, money, date/time format looks like is because of SPACE: Two languages may take twice the CDs? Also, I heard of a multi-language Windows XP Pro: A one that CAN switch from language to language. (nice!)