How to install Chinese text in Windows XP

Getting Chinese text in Windows is quite easy. Providing you have administrator rights, you can simply enable it in the control panel.

  1. Open the Windows Control Panel.
  2. (If the Control Panel is in “Category view”) Select “Date, Time, Language and Regional options.”
  3. Open the “Regional and Language Options” icon.
  4. Choose the “Languages” tab, and ensure the “Install files for East Asian languages” is checked, as per the screenshot below:

    Windows Regional and Language Options dialog

  5. Click the “Details” button to open the “Text services and input languages” dialog.
  6. If “Chinese” is not listed in the “Installed Services” box, click “Add”.
  7. In the “Input Language” list, choose “Chinese (PRC)”. The “Keyboard layout” should default to “Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0″. Click “Ok” on both dialogs to return to the “Regional and Language Options”.
  8. Click “Ok”, you will probably need to insert your Windows CD for the files to be installed.
  9. The language bar should now have appeared in the bottom right of the taskbar. It should default to English - “EN”.
  10. Click on the “EN” button to show the available languages:

    Windows language bar

  11. By changing the language to “CH”, you can now type in Pinyin. You can change the current language by pressing “ALT” + “SHIFT” on your keyboard.

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miganz
Posted Wednesday 13th May 2009 4:38am
hi to everyone, Id like to learn in chinese language...what can I do?
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myagmar
Posted Monday 21st September 2009 2:48am
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mlcc
Posted Wednesday 9th December 2009 11:44am
hi, I'd like to install Chinese as suggested above method. However, I cannot find "Chinese" at the "Input Language" list, please advise how I can add "Chinese" to the list.
P.S. I don't the Windows CD for this installation.
Thanks.
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foobar
Posted Tuesday 15th December 2009 2:39am
I have users who want to see Microsoft Windows with Chinese menu selections. I suspect these files have not been installed on my computer but Control panel selection 'Install East Asian Language Support' is disabled... How do I instal these files? Thanks. Joe Schaffner, Zhejiang, Yiwu, China
schaffnerja@yahoo.com
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araujolima
Posted Tuesday 2nd March 2010 4:28am
hi everyone, i have the same problem the user mlcc has: i cannot find "chinese" at the "Input Language" list. I would like to add it and a have the window cd. Please help me!