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What is Unicode?
It is the unification of
dozens of character sets such Latin, Greek, Arabic, French, German, Italian,
Spanish, Swedish, Greek, Tamil, Urdu, Thai, Chinese, Telgu, Japanese, Korean,
Hindi, Gujarati, etc; The Unicode contains
most of the languages all over the world including Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi,
Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, etc. For this purpose it requires 2 bytes (2*8
bits). There are no negative characters. More information about Unicode can be
found at www.unicode.org.
This Unicode is not
supported by Windows 95, 98 & ME, Windows 2000 and WindowsXP completely supports
Unicode. And the higher versions also (Windows 2003 Server, Longhorn).
That was background now
coming to main point how to make Window XP in your native language. For
simplicity and better understanding I have divided the entire process into three
steps. Let’s explore them as well as Unicode Magic.
Before you go for any of the
following mentioned process you need to do some modification to your system
which are as follows.
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Go to Control Panel>Regional
and Language Options. Click on Language tab and check the option named "Install
files for complex script and right to left languages". Depending upon your
requirement you can also go for "Install files for East Asia languages." Click
OK and provide the Windows XP setup CD and restart the system.
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After restarting once again
go to Control Panel>Regional and Language Options. In Regional Options tab
select your language ( e.g. Hindi ) and click on Customize... .Here in
Numbers > Standard Digits select your digit set and in Digit substitution select
National. You can also go for some other settings in this window.
[The First Process]
If there is discussion of
Windows operating system, Registry matters.
- Type “regedit”
in Run and you will have registry editor.
- In registry editor
locate the location "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache"
- Here you will see lots
of
string key. This is your first working area.
- Now start Character
Map and select "Mangal" font for Hindi, "Shruti" for Gujarati, “Latha” for
Tamil, “Tunga” for Kannada, “Raavi” for Gurumukhi and some other for other
languages.
- Character Map can be
found at
Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Character Map
If it is not there then install it from
Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs>Windows Components>Accessories and
Utilities>Accessories>Character Map
- Make some setting in
combo and list boxes to find your character set.
Select -> Advanced view
Character Set -> Unicode
Group by -> All
- Create words of your
language by selecting characters from it. If you have done then copy these
character. and paste it at the value of specific key in above specified
location in RE.
(In the “Mangal” font select any character. You can see its integer
code in status bar. This code is of 16 bit. E.g. U+0915: Devanagari Letter Ka.
That’s why you can’t enter it directly from keyboard.)
- Now come back to
Registry editor (at the above specified location “H..\S..\M..”). Go down your
memory lane and remember that you have seen any of this string values some
where in Explorer. Yes, double click on key you want to modify and paste those
words (copied in Character Map) here. And you have done it.
- For example in
Explorer you have seen text “Wave Sound” for files of ‘wav’ extension.
So find “@C:\WINDOWS\inf\unregmp2.exe,-9908” in Registry editor, double click
on key, modify it by pasting those words.
- In the same manner you
can modify tool tip of Recycle Bin, My Computer, Network Connections, etc.
- Do the same steps
(Step7 & 8) to modify other values.
- You don’t need to
restart the computer. Just close the explorer windows (if opened) and open it
again and see the MAGIC.
[ Note : For accessibility
you can add the required language from
"Control Panel>Regional and Language Options>Languages>Details". Now you can use
keyboard to enter your language. Use "Left Alt + Shift" to switch between
languages.]
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