D. Spencer Hines wrote:

You can do all that with Japanese IME and XP, right?

Well XP I can use the Japanese IME but there is no way I am aware of to
change the operating system language. So that basically limits the
capabilities to reading / writing text. You wouldn't have your menus,
buttons, texts, icons, etc. in a different language.

Kubuntu...I can use the IME and I can switch the entire operating system to
any language I want, at any moment I want, in real-time with a single mouse
click and don't even need to reboot as often as I want all day long.


As we have been told, only Vista Ultimate has such capabilities -- none of
the other versions allegedly allow you to have a truly multi-lingual
computer. You are allegedly limited to a single language when you
activate
it. But what we have been told is VERY fuzzy, so it's unclear if that is
precisely accurate.

Well if it starts with "You have to buy ultimate..." I don't doubt it.


Then, even if you have Vista Ultimate, you MIGHT be required to buy a
separate Language Pack to have, say Russian capabilities, on the same
computer, rather than just downloading the appropriate files and fonts
from
Microsoft. All that is very fuzzy and hazy too.

I don't doubt that either.

--
Stephan Rose
2003 Yamaha R6

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