Windows XP
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Windows XP is a Unicode-based operating system with its own CJK fonts
and input method editors but sometimes you may prefer a third-party
CJK enabler, especially if you need
more input methods (e.g. Traditional Chinese Pinyin to Hanzi) or want
to read pre-Unicode encoded documents without changing your default
language setting.
Install CJK Language Support
- Click on the Start button.
- Click on Control Panel.
- The Control Panel is directly accessible in the standard Start
menu but it is inside Settings in the classic Start menu.
- Click on "Date, Time, Language and Regional
Options."
- Select the "Add other languages" task.
- Or click on "Regional and Language Options" and select the Languages tab.
- Check the "Install files for East Asian languages"
option and click on the Apply button.
- Click Yes when you are asked to restart Windows.
- Go to "Add other languages" again and click on the
Details button.
- Click on the Add button.
- Select the language you want to add in the drop-down list of
input languages. You may also change the default input method
editor in the drop-down list of keyboard layouts if you prefer another
one.
- Click OK as many times as you are prompted to and then close
"Date, Time, Language and Regional Options."
I have not tested any of the following applications under Windows XP.
- Non-expiring shareware
- Reinstallable shareware
- Shareware permanently disabled after the trial period
The least expensive CJK enabler. It supports the following
character sets and
encoding forms:
-
| Language
| R/W 8-bit
| View 7-bit
|
| Multilingual
| UTF-8 (read-only)
| UTF-7
|
| Traditional Chinese
| Big5
| -
|
| Simplified Chinese
| GB, GBK
| HZ, ISO-2022
|
| Japanese
| Shift-JIS, EUC-JP
| ISO-2022
|
| Korean
| KSC (= EUC-KR)
| ISO-2022
|
Only the GB portion of GBK is supplied with input methods.
It has the most input methods of all
CJK enablers. You can input
compounds and phrases, not just individual characters.
Supported character sets and
encoding forms:
-
| Language
| R/W 8-bit
| View 7-bit
|
| Multilingual
| UTF-8
| MIME, UTF-7
|
| Traditional Chinese
| Big5
| MIME
|
| Simplified Chinese
| GB, GBK
| MIME, HZ, ISO-2022, ISO-2022-GB
|
| Japanese
| Shift-JIS, EUC-JP
| MIME, ISO-2022, ISO-2022-JP
|
| Korean
| KSC (= EUC-KR)
| MIME, ISO-2022, ISO-2022-KR
|
Only the GB portion of GBK is supplied with input methods. You
can use the Chinese, Japanese and Korean input methods to input UTF-8.
A modular CJK enabler: you can choose what languages and how many fonts
you want to install.
Supported character sets and
encoding forms:
-
| Language
| R/W 8-bit
| View 7-bit
|
| Traditional Chinese
| Big5
| -
|
| Simplified Chinese
| GB (= EUC-CN)
| HZ
|
| Japanese
| Shift-JIS, EUC-JP
| ISO-2022, ISO-2022-JP
|
| Korean
| KSC (= EUC-KR)
| ISO-2022-KR
|