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Log in as the user who wishes to enable one or more
of the installed multilingual components. Then:
Open Start -> Settings -> Control Panel and then open
Regional Options:
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The lower part of this panel is what you want to look at first.
You can scroll through the list to see what languages have already
been installed (as indicated by a check in the box); most default
installations from the factory do not have any other language packs
installed.
Check and see if the language(s) you would like to use has/have
been checked. If it does not, the language has not been installed
on the given machine; go back
to part one and have someone with administrative privileges
do the installation. |
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| Click on to the "Input Locales" tab of
the Regional Options panel. Click "Add..." to actually
install an available input locale. This only works if an administrator
has previously the installation described above (in
Part 1). |
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| I have used the upper popup to select the Input Locale,
which is Japanese in this example, and then I can use the lower
popup to select a particular input method (IME) for that Input Locale.
Some languages have many IMEs, others have only one, as is the case
for Japanese. Click "OK" to confirm you choice.
When you have added all the Input Locales for that user,
then click "Apply." Now you can begin the process of configuring
the input method (IME) itself. |
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| Click on the Input Locale you would like to configure
from the field list, then click on the "IME Setting..."
button. Another panel will appear that lists all the configurable
features of that particular input method. If this input method does
not do what you want, you can install another (and later remove
the ones you don't want).
Notice the checkbox "Enable indicator on the taskbar"
(lower part of the upper panel). This will put an input switcher
menu on the taskbar. You can later use that menubar to switch between
languages. Alternatively, you can use the "Hot keys for
input locales" (again lower part of the upper panel) to
create custom shortcuts. |
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| At this point you should have the input switcher menu
appearing on your start bar. Click on this to switcher between input
locales/input methods or use the keyboard shortcuts as indicated. |
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| It is up to the user to select the IME for the given
language, some languages have more that one so the user will have
to see which one is most appropriate. You can install as many IMEs
per input locale as you wish and remove them latter. Check out the
settings for each one to see if it fits your needs. What follows are
some notes on specific languages. |
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Traditional Chinese |
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Cyrillic (QWERTY Russian Keyboard) |
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Note about the Input Locales for Traditional Chinese |
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| This three-tab interface is the settings for the "New
Phonetic" IME for Chinese (Traditional); in order to configure
it to use Pinyin (a very popular input method for Chinese), you must
first click on the middle tab as indicated above. You will the see
what is pictured above. The default setting is the radio button with
a description in Chinese and marked with a "(S)." To type
in Pinyin, you must click the "(R)" setting as shown below: |
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| You will see that the keyboard changes to Roman
letters which is what this method uses to select Chinese characters.
Click "OK" to save these changes.
*****Note: For all Chinese IMEs, use the "v"
key to type the "ü" sound. |
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| A Special Note about the Russian
QWERTY keyboard |
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| The short answer to this is that there is none. Both
the Russian and Russian (Typewriter) refer to Soviet-style keyboards;
to get a QWERTY-style where the Cyrillic alphabet has been mapped
to the closest Roman letter, visit
this site and download/install the components. |
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| If you have any questions of comments about this demonstration,
please contact Robert at californiadream dot com. |
