Multi-language support

Multi-language support

For about 85% of all computer users, INF-Tool supports display in their natural language. This eases the daily use of the program and will help you to use it as efficiently as possible especially if english or german are not your mother tongues. Currently, INF-Tool supports 17 languages for the program itself and additional 5 languages for your self-extracting setups (might even be more since the last update of this helpfile):

·	*Bulgarian*
·	*Czech*
·	*Danish*
·	*Dutch*
·	*English*
·	*French*
·	*German*
·	*Greek*
·	*Hungarian*
·	*Italian*
·	*Norwegian*
·	*Polish*
·	*Portuguese*
·	*Russian*
·	*Spanish*
·	*Slovakian*
·	*Swedish*
·	...and more will follow !

(If you want to help with a translation of INF-Tool, just send me an email and I'll send you further instructions.)

But there is even more: if you want to distribute your application, you surely want to do that in the language your end-user speaks or the language of your application itself. No problem - the registered version of INF-Tool currently offers support for 23 languages for its self-extracting packages (might even be more since the last update of this helpfile)! Additionally to all of the above language, it comes with self-extracting support for

·	*Chinese*
·	*Finnish*
·	*Hebrew*
·	*Japanese*
·	*Serbian*
·	*Turkish*
·	..and more will follow !

Important information if you want to use east-european languages with INF-Tool

The standard Windows 95 distribution did not include multi-lingual fonts, so when you want the greek font, you're probably getting a font substitution.
Note: the following information applies only to Windows 95. You may destroy your font configuration if you do the described steps under Windows 98 or Windows NT!

Multilanguage support in Windows

The following brief guide explains how you can add multilanguage support to your computer, and how to write content and view documents using various language scripts.

Adding pan-European multilanguage support to Windows 95

Adding multilanguage support to your computer lets you view documents written in any common European script. If you want to edit these documents or write your own from scratch you also need to add keyboard support for your required languages.

Follow these instructions to add multilanguage support to your computer.

·	From the Control Panel select Add/Remove Programs.
·	Click Multilanguage Support, and then click Details.
·	Make sure a check mark appears beside the language or languages you want to use.
·	Click OK, and then click OK again.
·	The changes will take effect after your computer restarts.

If your copy of Windows 95 was supplied on floppy disks you can still access this feature by downloading and installing Multilanguage Support [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/download/lang.exe] :1,338KB, self-extracting archive, published: 1 February 1996].

You should now be able to view documents created in scripts such as Cyrillic and Greek. If you want to write using these scripts you also need to follow these instructions

·	From the Control Panel select Keyboard.
·	Select Language, and then click Add.
·	Select the languages you need.
·	Make sure Enable Indicator On Taskbar is checked.

Using pan-European support

When multilanguage support and keyboard support have been added to your Windows 95 machine the language indicator will be displayed on the task bar.
Writing multilanguage documents is easy, just click on the indicator to change language. If you are writing a document in Word, and wish to include a passage in Russian, click the language indicator on the taskbar, and then choose Russian. If in the same document you want to include a recipe in Hungarian, click the language indicator and choose Hungarian.

[Taken from http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/, please visit this URL to find more information if you need it.]

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