Chinesized my XP

gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


ok when i would have friends transfer files like mp3 or videos or download music from PA because my Windows XP was set to United States (English) it would mess up all the chinese characters


easy fix? my friend set my normal setting to Chinese (Hong Kong)

now everytime i install new software, it brings it up in chinese
i can't read much chinese
so AHHHHHHHHHHHH

and some of my software now keeps popping up errors in chinese!!!!!!!!

 

^word

 

me and a few of my co-workers have been messing with this from microsoft...

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/apploc.mspx

essentially what it does is allow us to keep the regional settings of the system in english but open applications in the regional language that we want to.

So you can set the itunes to open as if you were in HK hopefully preserving most of your chinese text conversions.

Let me know if you try it and can't get it to work...i can make some screenshots and send them over to ya

 

dont u just have to tick that box that says install files for east asian languages, that allows u to display chinese even if ur pc is set on english

 

It's not really a problem with Windows but more along the lines of the program that you are using.
If you have the East Asian Language Pack installed, Windows will automatically detect and decode the characters for you.

However, most programs will only check your regional settings at start up and do not automatically adjust to other languages afterwards. The AppLocale program temporarily overrides your regional settings so that the program of your choice will see a different language setting on startup.

 

^ i see

 

best way i guess is just to set it back to english

 

yup, set windows xp back to english and then go to the language/regional options and add the languages, that's what i did.

 

@ smallrini...even if you installed east asian language package the most is you will be able to surf chinese websites and window will decode the chinese characters in applications...about the mp3s..i think it'll remain messed up...unless you rename the files or install language packages like chinese star and NJ star

 

I think having the East Asian language pack installed should allow you to rename your files with the Chinese characters. On my computer, I have English as the default language, East Asian language pack installed, and also set up Chinese and Japanese under Text Services and Input Languages. One of these settings lets me name files with Chinese and Japanese characters. Also, as a side note since someone mentioned iTunes, it allows you to tag your files with foreign characters in the ID3, and iPods will also properly display them as well.

 

i did that as soon as i got my machine a long time ago

yup that's how it is, surfing the web is fine, typeing is fine, but downloading files will be messed up

that means i have to keep switching everytime i start downloading?
even for one song?
~sigh~

 

^i think tonkachi mentioned a tool that can help you out