How to run Chinese program in English Win XP Pro?

[David]

Hi,

I'm running a English version of Win XP Pro. I recently
bought a chinese game but when it runs the dialog are in
gibberish. How can I see the words? I think the encoding
is in Big5.

Thanks.

[Testy]

Learn Chinese!

Testy

"David" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
>
> I'm running a English version of Win XP Pro. I recently
> bought a chinese game but when it runs the dialog are in
> gibberish. How can I see the words? I think the encoding
> is in Big5.
>
> Thanks.


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[Peter Hutchison]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 04:03:42 -0700, "David" >
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm running a English version of Win XP Pro. I recently
>bought a chinese game but when it runs the dialog are in
>gibberish. How can I see the words? I think the encoding
>is in Big5.
>
>Thanks.

You need to install the Chinese language pack
1. Start, Settings, Control Panel
2. Regional & Language Options
3. Click on Languages
4. Enable option for East Asian languages, click OK. Insert XP Cd
when asked for.

Peter Hutchison
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