Peter Foldes said:
Richard is correct on this. You are not able to run any foreign language
programs that is proprietary in the language that it is written in on
Vista
especially on Home Premium
Hey guys ...
Again, I have to respectfully disagree. You can run applications in many
different languages on *any* edition of Vista, including Home.
As a reality-check, I just installed a Japanese copy of Office 2007 onto
Vista Home Premium (English). It runs fine - in Japanese! I can't make much
head-nor-tail of it, because I don't speak Japanese
But certainly, all
the Kanji/Hirigana etc writing is appearing in menus, in documents, etc. By
configuring a Japanese keyboard I can also enter Japanese text into a Word
document.
I can email a screen shot to anyone interested.
I'm more than 100% sure the Russian version of Office will work exactly the
same way on English-language Vista. Many times in the past I have installed
German-language Office on English-language Windows, and it worked without
any major problems.
In Vista Home Editon, you cannot install additional MUI languages - that
part is correct. The MUI determines the language which Windows will use, to
display its own resources - menus, dialogues etc. It does *not* put any kind
of limit on the languages which can be used by application programs running
on Windows. These are two different concepts (admitedly, easily confused).
Office controls its own code-page settings. OP Georgy has a an app which,
unlike Office, does not appear to control its own code page. Non-Unicode
applications, which do not explicitly override the system's default code
page, will display their data in the system's default code page. For most
English languge versions, that's going to be ANSI or ISO-8859. As Ian Betts
correctly noted, you can go into Control Panel, Regional Settings, and
change the default code page for non-Unicode programs. Again, I just did
this in Vista Home Premium edition, to make sure I'm not talking crap. I
don't have a single-byte Russian app to test it with, But I'm fairly sure
such an app will display Cyrillic characters. The underlying c_866.NLS file
(etc) is certainly present on Vista Home edition.
If OP Georgy changes his settings in Control Panel to support Russian
codepage, I believe his application will work correctly - in Russian - on
English-language Vista.
Apologies for being a bit pedantic and insistent about this, but ... the
guys in this thread are some of the more grown-up, responsible regulars in
this newsgroup. So we have a special responsibility (IMHO) to give accurate
technical advice.
Anyway, we should kill off the incorrect rumour that Vista Home Edition has
limited multilingual abilities. Vista has excellent multilingual ablities,
in all editions! Unfortunately Vista Home cannot handle multiple Windows
MUIs (just a petty marketing limitation, by Microsoft); but otherwise it is
world-ready.
Best regards,