Windows 8: Choose your language as you wish

February 21st is a UNESCO-sponsored International Mother Tongue Festival. Microsoft also took the opportunity to introduce more flexible multi-language configuration features in Windows 8. The Multilingual User Interface (MUI) introduced in Windows 2000 will once again be carried forward, making it easy for users to find, install, and switch the language they want.

Windows 7 already supports multiple languages, but if you want to get a language pack, users should either go to the optional update of Windows Update or go to the Microsoft website download center. Microsoft admits that this way of dividing into two groups is only suitable for internal development teams, but it will only cause problems for ordinary users, so Windows 8 has designed a new "Language" option in the control panel. Provide one-stop service, add or change display language, input language, change date/time/number format, or other functions are here.

By default, only American English is installed, and the keyboard layout is naturally the same. If you want to install more languages, just click on the first option above, “Add a language”.

Here Microsoft lists all optional language, and can be arranged in a variety of ways in alphabetical order, etc., can also type the first letter of the name of the language in the upper right corner of the search box or The first word of the local name is used to narrow the scope and make it easy to choose.

north Indian languages ​​(Hindi), for example, it will be added to the list after the selected list of languages, but only displayed it, the language itself does not download and install packages, have to click back <Option” (option) button.

If the language pack is available, there will be & ldquo; Download and install language pack & rdquo; (to download and install the language pack) option.

download and install the update process is like the same system patches.

After the installation is complete, but also click & ldquo; Make this the primary language & rdquo; (making it the preferred language) in order to make the new language in the first place.

in the main interface by clicking & ldquo; Move Up & rdquo; (moved up), & ldquo; Move Down & rdquo; (down) to sort the language.

Windows Vista, Windows 7 Ultimate will provide 34-35 languages ​​packets through Windows Update, Windows 8 will not see these, they will be transferred to the unified language control panel box.

Not only that, but Windows 8 will add another 14 languages, bringing the total number of languages ​​to 109 (Windows 7 95), covering more than 4.5 billion people.

Supporting so many languages ​​is not easy. Microsoft must design fonts, localized text, and input methods for each language to provide a complete experience. Each language requires almost 2 million words, almost equivalent. In the two "Harry Potter" complete works!

Among the added language packs, the most worth mentioning is British English, suitable for the United Kingdom, India, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Ireland and other countries. Users in these places have so far been "bearing" American English, Microsoft has admitted that this should have been done, but because both English use the same main language code "ISO 3166-2 EN", Microsoft engineers have spent money A lot of effort, this is the main reason why it took so long to join British English.

The other 13 new languages ​​are: Punjabi (Pakistan), Sindar (Pakistan), Middle Kurdish (Iraq), Uighur (China), Belarusian (Belarus), Kinyarwanda (Rwanda), Tigrinya (Ethiopia), Tajik (Tajikistan), Wolof (Senegal), Quiche (Guatemala), Scottish Gaelic (United Kingdom), Cherokee (United States), Valencian (Spain).