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Frequently Asked Questions
Windows XP Home and Professional Editions
This document addresses new features that were introduced by Windows XP. If you do not find information you are seeking here, please review our Windows 2000 FAQ.
Note: The information contained on this page also applies to Windows Server 2003 Family.
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How many language versions of Windows XP are there?Windows XP Home and Professional editions are released in 24 languages: English, German, Japanese, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, French, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Brazilian, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Portuguese, Greek, Turkish. Windows XP also offers more localized user interface languages via the Mulitilingual User Interface (MUI) Pack. See Windows XP & Windows 2000 MUI FAQ for details. As in Windows 2000, the language and locale support offered in Windows XP is identical in each of the language versions. No matter whether you're using the English version or the Arabic version, you'll find you can still input, process and display text in Greek, Japanese, Korean or any of the other languages supported in Windows XP. How many languages does Windows XP support?Windows XP adds 9 new languages to the impressive list of languages supported by Windows 2000:
Windows XP Service Pack 2 introduces ten additional lanaguages:
These languages are automatically installed when you update Windows XP to SP2. You can select new locales in Regional and Language Options. This brings the total number of languages supported in Windows XP in excess of 140 languages! How many locales does Windows XP support?In addition to the languages supported in Windows 2000, each of the above languages has it own locale in Windows XP. Windows XP also introduces an Invariant Locale whose settings are similar to US–English International standards. For more information, see New Locale and Language Features in Windows XP. You can find a complete list of locales supported by Windows XP in Windows XP - List of Locale IDs, Input Locale, and Language Collection. What other improvements to international features have been made to Windows XP?
For in–depth information, see Overview of Windows XP International Support, Part Two. How does Windows XP MUI (set to a particular user interface language) differ from a localized version of Windows XP?The level of localization coverage has been increased to about 97% in Windows XP MUI. This is in contrast to the 90% achieved in Windows 2000. For a more detailed answer, see Windows MUI FAQ Where can I find out more about Windows XP?The Microsoft Windows site on http://www.microsoft.com/windows provides links to sites for all the Windows operating systems. You'll find information about Windows XP at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/.
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