Posted by Els on 08/24/05 13:35

Hilarion wrote:

>>> There used to be a languages section on Windows Update, but that seems
>>> to have disappeared now (?). I can't seem to find anywhere through WU
>>> that I can download language packs any more.
>>
>> Exactly. I thought I could just find an option on my PC somewhere to
>> upload more fonts from the XP CD, but either it's gone, or I've
>> misplaced it somewhere (in my brain).
>
> On XP you have to go to regional settings (in control panel)
> and switch to languages tab. You'll fin there checkboxes which make
> Windows install support for many languages (including additional
> fonts or expanding existing fonts).

Yup, found it. The box for all kinds of weird languages was already
ticked, the East Asian languages wasn't, and apparently I need to
install 230MB of stuff when I tick it, so I decided against it :-)

Still would like to find out if I can write Hebrew in a text editor
though - I'd guess TextPad supports it, but I haven't found out yet
how.

> If you also want support for
> different codepages (not only unicode), then you'll have to check
> the advanced tab and mark the conversion tables you need.

That bit I have to investigate further, as I have no idea what all
those different codes actually do.

Thanks for the info :-)

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