Re: Vista english version : handling chinese characters?
"Paul Randall" <paulr901@cableone.net> wrote...
> You seem to know about this subject which comes up often here.
Aw shucks 
Thanks Paul! I'm not very multilingual myself (although, I'm
making good progress with English). But (i) my wife speaks and writes
English, French, and Greek; and (ii) I worked for a while for an
International organisation with a multilingual staff, and computers running
many different languages. So I've kind of learned by osmosis. You're right,
that this is a frequent question and there is a lot of confusion and
misunderstanding; not helped by Microsoft's very short-sighted policies
around MUIs in Vista.
> I have almost no expertise, but I'm looking for good references. Would
> you recommend this URL:
> http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/vista/vista_tools/vista_command_line_international_configuration.mspx
> to people who are stuck with a mismatch between the native language of
> their OS and the language they want to use? Or do you have a list of URLs
> that might help more, that you would like to share?
I don't know of a really good, easy-to-understand guide. But for a general
overview of MUI internals, I'd point folks towards:
Guide to Windows Vista Multilingual User Interface
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/85e289ca-9fd8-4963-b06a-5ecc457006c71033.mspx?mfr=true
A few other useful URLs, not exhaustive:
Windows Vista Language Support (general language support lookup list)
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/vista/Vista_Language_Support.mspx
Get World-Ready (main MSFT portal for devs and system admins on multilingual
issues)
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/getWR/default.mspx
Michael Kaplan's Blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/
(Michael is one of the "world-ready guys" at Microsoft, a great advocate for
internationalising software; and a wonderful human being as well. Just about
any of his blog entries at random is a delightful education on multilingual
issues in software).
And of course, who can forget:
http://www.unicode.org/
Cheers,
--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au