Re: Vista english version : handling chinese characters?
Thanks for the info.
At various times over the past few years I've tried to understand the
Microsoft internationalization stuff. Mostly it just hurts my brain. I've
often wondered how much of the Windows bloat everyone talks about is due to
Windows internationalization, and how much that effort affects the world.
-Paul Randall
"Andrew McLaren" <andrew@fakeaddress.com> wrote in message
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> "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
>