Some Web pages have special self-rendering fonts that require no special setup to be viewed on your system, but in general if you do not have East Asian languages activated you will not be able to view CJK documents.ĭon't worry if you've already installed XP, but I should point out that you can enable East Asian languages during installation by clicking this button, which opens the Regional and Language Options control panel: If after completing the following instructions you still have problems displaying Chinese in some but not all programs or web pages, see my FAQ on changing the default language for non-Unicode programs and web pages. This step is also required before you can type in Asian languages using input methods like MSPY IME Pinyin keyboard for Chinese simplified characters, the Microsoft New Phonetic IME Pinyin keyboard for Chinese traditional characters or the MSNP IME Zhuyin (Bopomofo) keyboard for Chinese traditional characters. All you need to do is tell XP to use them. Windows XP includes five Chinese fonts and several other Asian font sets as well.
This is required to view most Web pages and documents written in Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) in XP. It's easy to enable East Asian language display in Windows XP. Enabling East Asian Languages in MS Windows XP :: Pinyin Joe
