Microsoft KB Archive/292246

= List of languages supported in Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 =

Article ID: 292246

Article Last Modified on 12/3/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)
 * Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
 * Microsoft Windows XP Professional
 * Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Premium Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

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This article was previously published under Q292246



SUMMARY
This article lists the default languages that are installed in Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 versus the default languages that are installed in Microsoft Windows 2000.



Languages for the System
Windows 2000 languages           Windows XP / 2003 languages

Arabic                           Afrikaans Armenian                         Albanian Baltic                           Azeri(Cyrillic) Central Europe                   Azeri(Latin) Cyrillic                         Basque Georgian                         Belarusian Greek                            Bulgarian Hebrew                           Catalan Indic                            Croatian Japanese                         Czech Korean                           Danish Simplified Chinese               Dutch (Belgium) Thai                             Dutch(Netherlands) Traditional Chinese              English (Australia) Turkic                           English (Belize) Vietnamese                       English (Canada) Western Europe and United States English (Caribbean) English (Ireland) English (Jamaica) English (New Zealand) English (Philippines) English (South Africa) English (Trinidad) English (United Kingdom) English (United States) English (Zimbabwe) Estonian Faeroese Finnish French (Belgium) French (Canada) French (France) France (Luxembourg) French (Monaco) French (Switzerland) Galician German (Austria) German (Germany) German (Liechtenstein) German (Luxembourg) German (Switzerland) Greek Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian (Italy) Italian (Switzerland) Japanese Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian (FYROM) Malay(Brunei Darussalam) Malay (Malaysia) Mongolian (Cyrillic) Norwegian (Bokmal) Norwegian (Nynorsk) Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Portugal) Romanian Russian Serbian (Cyrillic) Serbian (Latin) Slovak Slovenian Spanish (Bolivia) Spanish (Chile) Spanish (Colombia) Spanish (Costa Rica) Spanish (Dominican Republic) Spanish (Ecuador) Spanish (El Salvador) Spanish (Guatemala) Spanish (Honduras) Spanish (International Sort) Spanish (Mexico) Spanish (Nicaragua) Spanish (Panama) Spanish (Paraguay) Spanish (Peru) Spanish (Puerto Rico) Spanish (Traditional Sort) Spanish (Uruguay) Spanish (Venezuela) Swahili Swedish Swedish (Finland) Tatar Turkish Ukrainian Uzbek(Cyrillic) Uzbek (Latin)

Your Locale (Location)
Windows 2000                    Windows XP / 2003 Region --             Afrikaans                        Afrikaans Catalan                         Albanian Danish                          Azeri(Cyrillic) Dutch (Belgium)                 Azeri(Latin) Dutch (Netherlands)             Belarusian English (Australia)             Bulgarian English (Belize)                Catalan English (Canada)                Croatian English (Caribbean)             Czech English (Ireland)               Danish English (Jamaica)               Dutch (Belgium) English (New Zealand)           Dutch (Netherlands) English (Philippines)           English (Australia) English (South Africa)          English (Belize) English (Trinidad)              English (Canada) English (United Kingdom)        English (Caribbean) English (United States)         English (Ireland) English (Zimbabwe)              English (Jamaica) Faeroese                        English (New Zealand) Finnish                         English (Philippines) French (Belgium)                English (South Africa) French (Canada)                 English (Trinidad) French (France)                 English (United Kingdom) French (Luxembourg)             English (United States) French (Monaco)                 English (Zimbabwe) French (Switzerland)            Estonian German (Austria)                Faeroese German (Germany)                Finnish German (Liechtenstein)          French (Belgium) German (Luxembourg)             French (Canada) German (Switzerland)            French (France) Icelandic                       French (Luxembourg) Indonesian                      French (Monaco) Italian (Italy)                 French (Switzerland) Italian (Switzerland)           Galician Japanese                        German (Austria) Korean                          German (Germany) Malay (Brunei Darussalam)       German (Liechtenstein) Malay (Malaysia)                German (Luxembourg) Norwegian (Bokmal)              German (Switzerland) Norwegian (Nynorsk)             Greek Portuguese (Brazil)             Hungarian Portuguese (Portugal)           Icelandic Spanish (Argentina)             Indonesian Spanish (Bolivia)               Italian (Italy) Spanish (Chile)                 Italian (Switzerland) Spanish (Colombia)              Japanese Spanish (Costa Rica)            Kazakh Spanish (Dominican Republic)    Kyrgyz (Cyrillic) Spanish (Ecuador)               Latvian Spanish (El Salvador)           Lithuanian Spanish (Guatemala)             Macedonian (FYROM) Spanish (Honduras)              Malay (Brunei Darussalam) Spanish (Mexico)                Malay (Malaysia) Spanish (Nicaragua)             Mongolian (Cyrillic) Spanish (Panama)                Norwegian (Bokmal) Spanish (Paraguay)              Norwegian (Nynorsk) Spanish (Peru)                  Polish Spanish (Puerto Rico)           Portuguese (Brazil) Spanish (Spain)                 Portuguese (Portugal) Spanish (Uruguay)               Romanian Spanish (Venezuela)             Russian Swahili                         Serbian (Cyrillic) Swedish                         Serbian (Latin) Swedish (Finland)               Slovak Slovenian Spanish (Argentina) Spanish (Bolivia) Spanish (Chile) Spanish (Colombia) Spanish (Costa Rica) Spanish (Dominican Republic) Spanish (Ecuador) Spanish (El Salvador) Spanish (Guatemala) Spanish (Honduras) Spanish (Mexico) Spanish (Nicaragua) Spanish (Panama) Spanish (Paraguay) Spanish (Peru) Spanish (Puerto Rico) Spanish (Spain) Spanish (Uruguay) Spanish (Venezuela) Swahili Swedish Swedish (Finland) Tatar Turkish Ukrainian Uzbek (Cyrillic) Uzbek (Latin)

Configuring Support for Multiple Languages
You can add, enable, and configure support for multiple languages by using the Regional Settings tool in Control Panel. To change the default language, follow these steps:
 * 1) Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
 * 2) Double-click Regional and Language Options.
 * 3) Click the Languages tab, click Details, and then click Add.
 * 4) Under Input Language, add the language that you want to use.
 * 5) Under Keyboard layout/IME, click the keyboard layout that you want, and then click OK.

Note Only users who have administrator permissions on the local computer can configure the following options on the Languages tab in Regional and Language Options:
 * Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages(Including Thai).
 * Install files for East Asian Languages.

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