Win7 lower versions for foreign language display?

Can the cheaper versions of Win7 display foreign language pages correctly?

Even my olde Win98SE machine can correctly display many foreign languages such as Russian, Chinese, Japanese etc as long as the appropriate free MS download for that language has been applied.

I am hoping that the "foreign language support" only available in the most expensive Win7 version refers to the ability to interface with Windows in those languages, and not the simpler activity of merely displaying them correctly.

Anyone tried?

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Bryn

Come on guys, help me out here

Try clicking on some of the languages at www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/languages/
and see if they display properly.

On my old XP system languages for which I have installed the free downloaded language packs display correctly; as expected others like Burmese display only as character code blocks.

Surely there must be some Arabic, Japanese, or Chinese speakers here!
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Bryn

Win7 Ultimate here, Burmese wouldn't display properly but most of the others did.

Edited by rolfharris (Thu 29-Oct-09 21:36:27)

In reply to a post by bryn:

Come on guys, help me out here

Try clicking on some of the languages at www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/languages/
and see if they display properly.

On my old XP system languages for which I have installed the free downloaded language packs display correctly; as expected others like Burmese display only as character code blocks.

Surely there must be some Arabic, Japanese, or Chinese speakers here!
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Bryn

I've had a look at a few of the languages on that site and I don't understand any of it..

I have Ultimate on 1 box and Professional on another and both display the languages/script correctly using Firefox 3.5.4 and IE 8..

Thanks folks: the big question remaining is do the cheaper versions of Win7 also display correctly?

Could someone with the more basic versions give it a try please?

Many thanks.

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Bryn

Windows 7 Home Premium displays all except Burmese correctly.

Great, thanks for that.

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Bryn

Displaying should be no problem - the point of Windows 7 Ultimate is supposed to be that you can switch the whole operating system to another language

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

Displaying should be no problem - the point of Windows 7 Ultimate is supposed to be that you can switch the whole operating system to another language

Why? English is good enough for most normal people.

I always run Windows in Scottish