How to Enable Multiple Language Support on Windows

With the introduction of Unicode, it has been possible to use every language spoken on this planet on the computer which was simply impossible to do with 8 bit ASCII code. And your Windows has a pre-installed support for that. You can write and read documents in any language supported in Unicode. Only you have to enable this feature. Follow these steps to do so,

Step 1:

Open your “Control panel” and click on the “Date, time, Language and Regional Options”. On the next window you will find an option for “Regional and Language Options”, click on it. Follow the screenshot,

Step 2:

Once you do so the following window will pop up and on the top Menu Bar you can see a tab named “Languages”, go for it.

Step 3:

In the second box named “Supplemental Language support” you will see two options – “Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages (including Thai)” and “Install files for East Asian Languages”. The first option is for languages like Arabic and second one is for different languages like Hindi, Mandarin, etc. check the option you want. Once you do so you will prompted with a confirmation message, click on “Ok”. Now click on “Ok” on this window and after some System tasks have been performed, you will be asked to insert your Windows Install disc which contains all the required files as shown in the picture. Insert the required disk and press “Ok”. And if you have saved the image file somewhere on your computer or on your network, you can give that location also. And once you press “Ok” all the necessary files will be installed.

Now you can easily read and write in your native language. Remember to do the above said steps you must be logged in your computer as an “Administrator”.


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