Since its initial design stages, Microsoft Windows NT has incorporated international support through the Unicode character encoding system APIs, which retrieve language-specific information and resource files that store user interface (UI) elements in multiple languages. Windows 2000, a world-ready operating system that supports more than 100 international locales, is the culmination of several years of progressive improvements in the operating system's international support. Each of the more than two dozen language editions of Windows 2000 will support the input and display of languages used in all 100 locales. Because all language editions are based on the same core code--the same API set, the same character encoding, the same fonts and character tables--it will be much easier to maintain multilingual networks and machines using Windows 2000 and to create applications that can easily support multilingual documents.

A step-by-step exploration of how to customize its Unicode-based language capabilities.

Single-binary architecture means the language you want is probably at your fingertips.

FAQs on new language specific api's in Windows 2000

Microsoft Systems Journal article.

FAQs on the Windows 2000 Multilanguage versions, system requirements, release schedules and other information.

presented by Jim Turley, a Director of XA International.