Whoa here, bad advice given. Shame Raptor, shame GX1_MAN, shame patio. You are all sentenced to 12 hours in the guillotine, the one right out there on main street. Win XP (English) definitely does support other languages:
List of languages supported in Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003.
Last year, a Korean friend who is a US resident has a relative visiting from Korea. He wanted to send email to Korea, in Korean. I researched the issue and learned that, indeed, Korean and many other languages can be installed on Win XP. I tested the procedure on my computer and after successfully installing Korean, I did the same on her computer. I had removed Korean but reinstalled it after reading this post. Note that this did not involve downloading anything. As I recall, I did have to insert my Win XP CD the first time I installed Korean. I'll type a few Korean characters in this message; I realize they may not display properly on your computer. Here goes: [ch48141] [ch12615] [ch12615] [ch12623] [ch12599] [ch12623] [ch12643] [ch12616] [ch12640].
The Korean visitor mentioned above had a keyboard guide and had also used an English keyboard in Korea, so he was able to compose email in Korean.
Installing Korean, or any foreign language, adds a language bar which appears in the Notification area, or it can be positioned at the top of the desktop screen. It allows the user to switch back and forth between languages by simply clicking on the toolbar. Here an image with it placed at top of the screen:
I tried installing Spanish and it did appear in the language bar. However, I saw no change in actual characters typed from my keyboard. I briefly searched for some info and found a reference indicating a keyboard change is needed. See
The easiest way I know of to write in Spanish with Windows XP
. I did not pursue that further, but this will at least give Silencer RPMs some info with which to proceed.
