Installing foreign languages

suma

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When trying to install east asian languages (Chinese, Japanese,etc) I get a prompt that reads "The file 'xjis.nls' on Windows XP Home Edition CD-ROM is needed."

But placing the XP Home CD-ROM in the drive doesn't do anything. The drive runs for a few seconds and the same prompt reappears.

Has anyone experienced this? Can anyone offer help or a solution?

Thanks
 

MDRazor

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To install foreign languages (by foreign I mean japanese, chinese, corean...), you must have winxp language packs cd, because these languages aren't on the winxp installation cd
 

suma

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Is your XP CD a full version or some sort of cut down one that came with the PC ?

I bought my laptop at a retail shop in Hong Kong. It came with an English XP Home edition CD.

It also came with a Chinese XP Home edition CD. But I've never used this CD.
 

suma

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Try this link:

www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Utilities/XP%20AND%20FOREIGN%20LANGUAGES.htm

Thanks for the link.

I followed the directions but I still get the same prompt. I also tried installing 'complex left to right languages' just to see what would happen, and it told me that it could not find another file it needed for these languages.
 

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That file is inside the i386 directory in unextracted form xjis.nl_

The tool to expand it can be found there as well: expand

Copy them both to a temp folder, and extract the file. You probably have to do this in a DOS window (command prompt).
 

suma

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That file is inside the i386 directory in unextracted form xjis.nl_

The tool to expand it can be found there as well: expand

Copy them both to a temp folder, and extract the file. You probably have to do this in a DOS window (command prompt).

I'm not a DOS pro or anything. Could you give instructions for someone who doesn't really know what they're doing?

Thanks.
 

pscowboy

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Start - Run - cmd

Navigate to the place where you copied the files.

expand xjis.nl_

Now if you try the language installs again, you can tell it where that file is.
 

suma

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Start - Run - cmd

Navigate to the place where you copied the files.

expand xjis.nl_

Now if you try the language installs again, you can tell it where that file is.

How exactly do I copy the files? Thanks.
 

pscowboy

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Get someone more savvy to help you, and tell them to read this whole thread.

If you don't know how to copy a file from one place to another, this forum is not for you to handle alone. Get help from somebody physically near you.