Microsoft KB Archive/273558

= How to determine the regional settings and supported languages =

Article ID: 273558

Article Last Modified on 5/7/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition

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This article was previously published under Q273558



SUMMARY
This article describes the differences in the language support in Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) and Microsoft Windows 2000.



MORE INFORMATION
Windows 2000                           Windows Millennium Language settings for the system:      Language:

Arabic                                 Afrikaans Armenian                               Albanian Baltic                                 Basque Central Europe                         Belarusian Cyrillic                               Bulgarian Georgian                               Catalan Greek                                  Croatian Hebrew                                 Czech Indic                                  Danish Japanese                               Dutch Korean                                 English Simplified Chinese                     Estonian Thai                                   Faeroese Traditional Chinese                    Finnish Turkic                                 French Vietnamese                             German Western Europe and United States       Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian (FYROM) Norwegian (Bokmal) Norwegian (Nynorsk) Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian (Cyrillic) Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian

Windows 2000                   Windows Millennium Your locale (location):        Country/Region: Afrikaans                      Afghanistan Basque                         Albania Catalan                        Algeria Danish                         American Samoa Dutch (Belgium)                Andorra Dutch (Netherlands)            Angola English (Australia)            Antigua and Barbuda English (Belize)               Argentina English (Canada)               Armenia English (Caribbean)            Australia English (Ireland)              Austria English (Jamaica)              Azerbaijan English (New Zealand)          Bahamas, The English (Philippines)          Bahrain English (South Africa)         Bangladesh English (Trinidad)             Barbados English (United Kingdom)       Belarus English (United States)        Belgium English (Zimbabwe)             Belize Faeroese                       Benin Finnish                        Bermuda French (Belgium)               Bhutan French (Canada)                Bolivia French (France)                Bosnia and Herzegovina French (Luxembourg)            Botswana French (Monaco)                Brazil French (Switzerland)           British Indian Ocean Territory German (Austria)               Brunei German (Germany)               Bulgaria German (Liechtenstein)         Burkina Faso German (Luxembourg)            Burundi German (Switzerland)           Cambodia Icelandic                      Cameroon Indonesian                     Canada Italian (Italy)                Cape Verde Italian (Switzerland)          Central African Republic Japanese                       Chad Korean                         Chile Malay (Brunei Darussalam)      China Malay (Malaysia)               Colombia Norwegian (Bokmal)             Comoros Norwegian (Nynorsk)            Congo Portuguese (Brazil)            Congo (DRC) Portuguese (Portugal)          Costa Rica Spanish (Argentina)            Croatia Spanish ((Bolivia)             Cuba Spanish (Chile)                 Cyprus Spanish (Colombia)              Czech Republic Spanish (Costa Rica)            Cote d'Ivoire Spanish (Dominican Republic)    Denmark Spanish (Ecuador)               Djibouti Spanish (El Salvador)           Dominica Spanish (Guatemala)             Dominican Republic Spanish (Honduras)              East Timor Spanish (Mexico)                Ecuador Spanish (Nicaragua)             Egypt Spanish (Panama)                El Salvador Spanish (Paraguay)              Equatorial Guinea Spanish (Peru)                  Eritrea Spanish (Puerto Rico)           Estonia Spanish (Spain)                 Ethiopia Spanish (Uruguay)              Macedonian (FYROM) Spanish (Venezuela)             Faeroe Islands Swahili                         Fiji Islands Swedish                         Finland Swedish (Finland)               France                                Gabon Gambia, The Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong S.A.R.                               Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Jan Mayen Japan Johnston Atoll Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea Kuwait Kyrgyz Stan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Man, Isle of                               Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia Midway Islands Moldova Monaco Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands, The New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Korea Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Reunion Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Pierre and Miquelon Samoa San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa Spain Sri Lanka St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Sudan Suriname Svalbard Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Sao Tome and Principe Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands Wake Island Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe

You can add, enable, and configure support for multiple languages using the Regional Settings tool in Control Panel.

To change the default language:
 * 1) Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click Regional Settings.
 * 2) On the Regional Settings tab, click the language that you want to use, and then click OK.
 * 3) When you are prompted to restart your computer, click Yes.
 * 4) In Control Panel, double-click Keyboard.
 * 5) On the Language tab, click Add, click the language you want to use in the Add Language dialog, click OK, click Set As Default, and then click OK.

To install multilanguage support:


 * 1) In Control Panel, double-click Add/Remove Programs.
 * 2) On the Windows Setup tab, click to select the Multilanguage Support check box, and then click OK.
 * 3) When you are prompted to restart the computer, click Yes.

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