Language : How to setup Windows 2000 to read and write Chinese

This page shows youthe steps for installing Chinese (East Asian languages) fonts on a computer running Windows 2000 Professional so that the user can both read and write in them.

Open the Control Panel dialog box by clicking on the Start button, moving the mouse to Settings and click on Control Panel. Double click on Regional Options to open its dialog box.

On the General tab in the Regional Options dialog box, check the languages you want supported (Japanese; Korean; Simplified Chinese; and / or Traditional Chinese) by clicking in the checkbox next to those languages listed under Language settings for the system. You may need to scroll down to see the language options you want. You may be prompted for a Windows 2000 Professional CD-ROM.

Next, click on the tab for Input Locales, and then add the language input options you want by clicking on the Change... button under Input Languages and Methods. There are a number of different input methods so if you are comfortable with the Pinyin romanization system for Chinese, you may want to choose Chinese (Simplified) - MS-Pinyin98. Please note that MS-Pinyin98 allows toggling between traditional and simplified Chinese input, and so if you want to be able to write both traditional and simplified characters you may not need to install a traditional Chinese input option in addition.

Updated On: 12.12.19