Re: off-topic: English/French - what version of SP2 should I use?

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I discovered the French version of SP2 by visiting the MSDN Windows 2000
subscriber downloads site. There are separate downloads for each different
language (Arabic, Czech, French, German, Greek, etc.)

Does each download contain essentially the same code, with just the
installation/license information in the native language? Or is there
another reason to install one language version rather than another?

-bill

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Subject: [ntdev] Re: off-topic: English/French - what version of SP2
should I use?

I thought Win2K is the first OS release that fully leverages
UNICODE support. As
a result, there is only 1 set of OS binaries (as opposed to a
binary set for
individual countries that is necessary for NT). Therefore, I
don’t think there
is even French version of SP2.

Bill Christie wrote:

> Sorry for this off-topic question, but hopefully it’ll be
easy for somebody:
>
> I have a customer that will be using our application in France, and
> therefore will be running a French version of Win2K. In
the meantime
> however, (and for support reasons), I’d like the computer
to be able to run
> either in English or French. Install both languages - so
far so good.
>
> The PC came with Win2k SP1 (English/US) pre-installed. I’d
like to upgrade
> it to SP2, but which version of SP2 should I install? The
U.S. version, or
> the French version? (or both??)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill Christie, Software Engineer
> Link Engineering Company
> 43855 Plymouth Oaks Blvd.
> Plymouth, MI 48170
> www.linkeng.com
>
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> Does each download contain essentially the same code, with just the

installation/license information in the native language?

Localized resources like the string tables and menus are the only difference, if we are not speaking on Far East versions.
Far East ones have another apps for Japanese characters input (IME aka Input Method Editor).

Or is there
another reason to install one language version rather than another?

According to MS, if you have localized (like French) Word or Excel or other MS’s app, it is guaranteed to work OK only on localized
OS.
So, US English Word will work on both US English and French OS. But the French Word is not guaranteed to work OK on US English OS.
Yes, usually it works, but MS does not guarantee this.

BTW - surely the US English Word on US English OS will work with French (or Russian) documents fine if your OS’s locale setting is
correct for this. You will just see the GUI in English and not French.
Some smaller stuff like Windows Installer and some MSIE components have the ability of auto-select its GUI language (strings
appearing on the screen) according to the OS’s locale setting. I have Russian Windows Installer on US English OS.

Max

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