You can use specialized keyboard layouts to type in specific languages. If you have more than one keyboard layout installed, you can switch between them.
Install keyboard layouts for specific languages in Windows XP
- On the Microsoft Windows Start menu, point to Control Panel.
- Click Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options and then click Regional and Language Options.
- Click the Languages tab and then click Details under Text services and input languages.
- Click the keyboard layout you want in the Default input language list and then click Apply.
- If you want to be able to switch keyboard layouts by using the Language bar, click Language Bar under Preferences, and then select the Show the Language bar on the desktop check box.
Install keyboard layouts for specific languages in Windows 2000
- On the Microsoft Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
- Do one of the following:
If the Text Services icon is available
- Double-click the Text Services icon, and then click the Settings tab.
- Under Installed Services, click Add.
- In the Input Language box, click the language you want, and then click OK.
The keyboard language you selected appears in the Installed Services box.
- If you want to be able to switch keyboard layouts by using the Language bar, click Language Bar under Preferences, and then select the Show the Language bar on the desktop check box.
If the Text Services icon is not available
- Double-click the Keyboard icon.
- Click the Input Locales tab.
- Click Add.
- Click the language you want in the Input locale list, and then click OK.
- If you want to be able to switch keyboard layouts by using the Windows taskbar, make sure the Enable indicator on taskbar check box is selected.
Switch keyboard layouts
Note To type East Asian text, you must be using an Input Method Editor (IME) (IME: A program that enters East Asian text (Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, or Korean) into programs by converting keystrokes into complex East Asian characters. The IME is treated as an alternate type of keyboard layout.).
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