Technical Reference

This article provides an overview of the new core language enablement features in Windows 7 and the key advances in Windows globalization infrastructure. It also describes how and where IT professionals can leverage these new features for their international customers.

Learn how the new Extended Linguistic Services (ELS) feature in Windows 7 allows you to auto-detect the language of Unicode text and use that information to help make smarter user experience choices for customers around the world, convert text from one writing system to another, and pick up new linguistic services in the future without learning new code.

A hub page to find answers to your questions about Windows Multilingual User Interface (MUI).

Here you will find information on National Language Support (NLS) in Windows that allows you to create globalized applications using core foundational pieces such as locales, basic text enablement, date/time/calendar formatting, keyboard layouts, sorting behavior, and more.

Provides a detailed reference of fonts, locales, speech recognition, handwriting recognition, keyboard layout and input methods for each language that Windows supports.

Get an overview of the internationalization features that were introduced in the Windows Vista release.

Review the internationalization features that were introduced in the Windows 2000 and Windows XP releases.

Review articles, product documentation, samples, and books on globalization and localization for the .NET Framework, Visual Studio .NET, and ASP.NET.

Describes changes made to text-display support for new scripts made in each major release of Windows.

Use these checklists to ensure your application is world-ready AND secure.

Review the National Language Support API data (such as LCIDs, code pages, languages, and locales) for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows 2003, and Windows XP.

List of all localized Microsoft Operating Systems

Code page tables supported by Windows.

Table of language, geographic, and locale configurable settings.

An article to help you ensure that your world-ready application runs Unicode on all Windows platforms.

Find the meaning for the terms used in software globalization, and access the Microsoft localization glossary.

Links to technology- and application-specific articles that will help you make your application world-ready.

Links to other globalization resources on the Internet.