Need help with multilingual problem...

[wnied]

I have a friend who visits Greece to be with his family from time to time. Recently he caught a virus on his laptop, and I redid it for him. He wants to be able to work with files from Greece when he visits, as well as English for when he returns. I've never set up a computer to be able to be used with two languages. Could someone give me an idea of what I would need to do to get this working?

All help is appreciated.
~wnied~

 

[wnied]

No one has ever set up a computer with more than one language before???

 

[akugami]

If the files are in unicode, Windows should be able to display the text automatically. If you want to enable typing Greek characters and stuff you have to go to the control panel under the region and language settings.

 

[wnied]

And thats what I thought as well, yet when I go into the control panel, the region and language settings are grayed out as if theyre unavailable...

A truely perplexed
~wnied~

 

[akugami]

The whole Region and Language control panel is grayed out? Which would be highly highly strange. Or are you just saying that the Greek languages are grayed out within the Region and Language control panel?

If you're running WinXP you might need to install the proper language packs from the XP install disc. If you're running Vista you should be able to enable it automatically because I believe it installs the language packs automatically for file viewing. Just not for typing.