Martin v. Löwis wrote: > David Hopwood schrieb: > >>>If you have access to "German Windows XP", "Japanese Windows XP", >> >>Since Win2K there is actually no such thing, from a technical point of view -- >>just Win2K or WinXP with a German or Japanese "language group" installed, >>and a corresponding locale selected as the interface locale for a given user >>account. The links below should make this clearer. > > That's not true. Even though you can change the system code page and the > user locale, other aspects of the installation won't change (such as the > language used in the menus, the language of the help files, and so on). > > With W2k, Microsoft introduced MUI (multi-lingual user interfaces), so > you could change the language of the menus and help files at run-time, > in a per-user fashion (this was only available to selected customers > for W2k, and is generally available for WXP).
I stand corrected. The MS web site is quite misleading on this point. > However, there still are separate products for "English Windows XP", > "German Windows XP", and so on. You can install a MUI pack only on > the English version, and an English version + German MUI is different > from the German version: the program files folder is called > "Program Files" in the English version (and doesn't get renamed when > a MUI package is installed), and is called "Programme" in the German > version. Right, but it is just a registry entry that controls where each user's program files directory (in the sense of the default location to install *new* programs) is. -- David Hopwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
