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This Instructable will teach you how to add East Asian characters to Windows XP. I also made a Windows Vista here. In other words this allows you to add Chinese, Korean, Japanese, ect characters to Windows XP so that you can read and write in those characters. This will work for any Windows XP, it will not work for Vista or Windows 7 since the files are different, and the options are in different locations.1) Any version of Windows XP Installed on a computer.2) Windows XP Install CD a) If you dont have the disk I have created a zip files with all the necessary files. Download Here.
More recent versions of Windows have East Asian Languages support out of the box, but unfortunately Windows XP doesn’t have this functionality unless you install it. To get East Asian Languages support on Windows XP, you have to use the original installation CD / DVD, but most people don’t have this for various reasons. Installing East Asian Languages support in Windows XPThere’s some chance that you won’t actually need the CD to get East Asian Languages support in Windows XP, so it’s worth trying to install it normally first. If you’ve already tried this and know how to do it, skip this section. Go to Control Panel and open the Regional and Language Options window. At the bottom of that window there’s a check box labeled “ Install files for East Asian languages”. Click that check-box, and click OK on the pointless file size warning that comes up. Then click the Apply button in the main window. This will then attempt to install East Asian Languages support. If you’re lucky, it may work just like that, in which case you’re done here. However, it may ask for the Windows XP installation CD. If you don’t have that, use the section below. Installing East Asian Languages support without the CDSo how can you get CJK language support ( Chinese, Japanese and Korean) without the install disc? You could just install a decent operating system like Linux Mint, but there are ways to get proper language support on Windows XP if you need it. You’ve just got to get hold of the necessary file somehow. There’s actually quite a good chance the file will be on your hard-drive already, but in some hard-to-find location. Here are some potential locations, but it could be anywhere: C: I386 C: I386lang C: WINDOWSI386 C: WINDOWSService Pack Filesi386lang The file you’re looking for is called cplexe.exe, so if you can’t that file in any of the above locations try doing a general search for that. If you can.
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