Windows vista chinese display

Windows 7 and Vista include the following Chinese fonts. I have a page full of actual examples of Windows 7 and Vista Chinese fonts for you, but first I thought I should list the font names as you will find them in many menus. See also my survey of additional free and commercial third-party Chinese fonts.

Windows Ultimate, and most installations of Enterprise include "Language Packs" that change the Windows and Internet Explorer user interface menus, dialog boxes, etc. You do not need a Language Pack to display or type Chinese. Language Packs will not change any of your English applications, and Chinese applications do not require Language Packs to display Chinese! MS Office Language Packs must be purchased separately.

Other companies like Adobe usually require purchase of separate localized editions. But Windows Vista and Windows 7 Language Packs for over thirty different languages can be downloaded and added to Ultimate and Enterprise systems for no additional charge.

OK, so this isn't exactly a language feature per se, but Windows 7 includes some very nice desktop backgrounds, and they seem to be different across regions. I've collected the pictures for Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and India and posted them to this wallpaper download page. As this is " Pinyin Joe's" website, you won't see much here about other input methods, including handwriting input and speech features, but here's a some basic info:.

For a brief backgrounder on all of these additional features, please see my earlier review of the Vista Beta 2 release and my intro to Windows 7 Chinese language packs. Chinese Computing Help Desk. Custom Search. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Reply 1. GioAguilar 4 Germanium. So far as I know, there's no way we can change it if is not Vista Ultimate or Enterprise as you said At the moment to install Vista you'll be asked to select language, but for the keyboard settings, not the enviroment.

So it will be better to get Ultimate, or wait until The language pack are released for all Vista version I don't think that could happen. Post Reply. Top Contributor. Dell Support Resources. But first, here's a side-by-side comparison of the Windows Start menu in traditional and simplified Chinese:. Language Packs change only the system and Internet Explorer. They have no effect on the language in the menus and dialogs of any other individual applications.

Other software companies like Adobe may require purchase of completely separate editions for each language, if available at all. Language Packs are not necessary even if you see "??? You do not need a Language Pack just for that. This is the only way to get simplified character handwriting input, but for traditional characters this is in addition to a handwriting feature you already have in your IME Pad after activating one of the Traditional IMEs' input methods.

This is a new Windows 7 "feature". Windows 7 Language Packs are available as free downloads for owners of Ultimate and full licenses of Enterprise. If all you want are the translations of Windows or Office menu items from one language to the other, try the Microsoft Language Portal's Terminology Search feature.

Notice that you can change the language of that page at the upper right too:. If you have Windows 7 Enterprise, usually an IT administrator will have to download this via your organization's volume licensing account and I am not able to help with that. But in Ultimate, all you have to do is run Windows Update! You'll find all the available Language Packs listed as optional updates.

Select the checkboxes next to the packs you want, then click the "OK" and "Install Updates". Note: Internet Explorer Language Packs began showing up as separate downloads a year or two after Windows Vista was released. I suspect this was due to a European Commission ruling requiring more separation between the system and IE, but by the time you read this Microsoft may have negotiated a way to combine the downloads again.