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Configuring and Using International Features of Windows

Introduction

Note: For the sake of this discussion we define Windows as the following versions of Windows: Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003 Family, Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows 2000 Server Family.

Windows offers support for the languages and cultural conventions used in over 120 international locales. 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.

The following documents will guide you through the process of setting up and configuring your systems running Windows - English, localized, or MUI, to use whichever languages and regional settings you need.

Note:Not all documents are available yet, but we'll be adding them as soon as we can!

If you have questions or comments about the material provided here please let us know.

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Configuring the system during setup

Basic concepts you'll need to understand as you configure multilingual and international settings of the Windows family of operating systems.

How to:

Install the Windows MUI from the command line

Add support for languages and international settings during setup

Add support for languages and international settings during unattended setup

Perform an unattended install of the Windows MUI

Install MUI after base English Windows setup is complete

Install MUI as part of base English Windows setup

Deploy MUI using Remote Installation Service (RIS)

Configuring the system post setup

How to:

Add support for displaying text in other languages

Windows XP/Server 2003 Family

Windows 2000

Add support for inputting text in other languages (by installing input locales)

Windows XP/Server 2003 Family

Windows 2000

Find and input characters in a particular language

Find characters in a particular font

Change the language used to display the menus and dialogs with MUI

Restrict user's choice of the language used to display menus and dialogs with MUI


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