Multilingual WordPad

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Start Menu : Programs : Accessories.

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Supported Languages

WordPad for Windows 2000 or XP fully supports all European and Asian languages that you have fonts and keyboard layouts for.

WordPad for Windows ME fully supports all European and Middle Eastern languages that you have fonts and keyboard layouts for. It can display Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) but it does not support Microsoft's global input method editors. You may type CJK in Outlook Express or Mozilla and then copy and paste the text into WordPad, or you can input CJK with NJStar Communicator.

WordPad for Windows 98 requires the RichEdit 3.0 update to function like WordPad for Windows ME.

WordPad for Windows 95 supports European languages. Read how you can type Cyrillic.

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Switching Directions

Press Ctrl + right Shift to change the direction of a paragrah from left-to-right to right-to-left, or press Ctrl + left Shift to set it back to left-to-right.

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Inputting Unicode Characters

Type the four-digit hex code of a Unicode character and then press Alt+X:

Type 263a, press Alt+X, and you will get a .

Shift+Alt+X typed after a Unicode character will turn the character into its hex code.

Unicode Charts

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