Making Windows XP and Office 2000/XP/2003 Multilingual Martin Heijdra, March 2004 I What are scripts in the computer world? 1. Usual division: • Four groups: 1. Simple (alphabets: English, Russian: здравствуйте! 2. Double byte (East Asian; many characters; Input Method Editors needed) 日本人的な感 覚として 3. Bi-directional (from Right to Left: Arabic [also connecting] and Hebrew ) ﻲﺑﺮﻌﻟا 4.
- additional language support
- input locales
- special glyphs for a particular combination
- user locale
- locale setting swedish
- default system language
- code pages
- unicode
- system
- languages