How to set up multilingual settings

[Jeremy]

I would like to set up my computer so that I can type and print documents in
spanish. I have tried the settings in the Regional and Language settings,
and I get the language toolbar and I can select Spanish, but I cannot type
in spanish. Is there some other way or some kind of patch that I have to
apply to get windows xp Pro to type in spanish? Any help would be great.

 

[CS]

I would like to set up my computer so that I can type and print documents in
spanish. I have tried the settings in the Regional and Language settings,
and I get the language toolbar and I can select Spanish, but I cannot type
in spanish. Is there some other way or some kind of patch that I have to
apply to get windows xp Pro to type in spanish? Any help would be great.

What do you mean type in Spanish? Are you expecting an automatic
translation from English to Spanish as you type? If you're referring
to Spanish characters like an accent or the inverted question mark,
those can be done easily by using the "Character Map" in XP.

Also, you might want to post the same question in one of the MS
General XP newsgroups that are in Spanish.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I would like to set up my computer so that I can type and print documents in
spanish. I have tried the settings in the Regional and Language settings,
and I get the language toolbar and I can select Spanish, but I cannot type
in spanish.

Presumably you want a Spanish keyboard layout. In Regional and
Language, Languages page click on Details, then in that on Add. Select
Spanish as the Language (in which ever of the 20 variations offered you
prefer), Check the 'layout box', then select Spanish as the layout (4
variations). OK, then in the parent page either set up the Language bar
to allow you to select the combination, or use Key Settings to set up a
pair of hot-key combinations to switch. Select whichever
language/layout combination you want for default at boot, and OK out,
clicking Apply first wherever it is not greyed out.

Note that this will *not* change the language of messages - but it will
enable a standard environment for typing in the language