Kbase 21493: I18N. What are Input Locales?
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
08/08/2006 |
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Status: Unverified
GOAL:
What are Input Locales?
FIX:
Input locales, implemented in Win9.x, NT4 and Windows 2000, are pairings of an input language with an input method (which might be a particular keyboard layout, an Input Method Editor, or speech-to-text converter, for example).
Specifically, an input locale depict the language being entered, and how it is being entered.
Input locales are added on a per user basis. For each account it is possible to install multiple input locales and switch between them when entering text, allowing for the composition of multilanguage documents.
Adding or removing input locales has an immediate effect (i.e a reboot is not required). Note that only those input locales for which appropriate language groups have been installed will be available to choose from.
Example of input locale use:
An Arabic user using Arabic Windows 2000 wants to type an email message in a mixture of Arabic and Russian. The user already has an Arabic input locale, and installs a second input locale for the Russian language (with an Arabic keyboard layout). When entering text, the user is able to switch between the Arabic input locale and the Russian input locale.