I'm planning to buy a new laptop with XP. Although I want the interface to be
in English, I also want to be able to write in Japanese. I have read that
this option is available to Windows XP Professional, but is it also available
in Windows XP Home and Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005?

I would appreciate your input!

Every version of XP will support entering Japanese.


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"Nic" <Nic (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote

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Mostly, XP Home has it too. Last weekend for an experiment I installed the
MSDN English-language version of XP Home with SP2. I could install support
for Asian languages and enable text services on all applications, and it
worked for applications like Notepad, but it didn't work for a command
prompt (CMD.EXE). In a command prompt window I tried "mode con cp
select=932" but MSDN English-language XP Home SP2 said that 932 was an
invalid code page.

Microsoft has told me at least twice that MSDN English-language products
differ vastly from the North American versions, so you might have better
results.

Media Centre I haven't tried, sorry.


"rodriguez soledad" <sol_15_373 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

The issue you raise below is described here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archiv...06/544251.aspx

The default system locale has to be changed for the console to work here in
the way you would like....

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Globalization Infrastructure, Fonts, and Tools
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"Norman Diamond" <ndiamond (AT) community (DOT) nospam> wrote