International Versions of Windows 95

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK)

SUMMARY

Microsoft Windows version 3.1 is available in 27 different language versions. Windows 95 will also be released in 27 different language versions, with possibly more versions following later.

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There are three categories of the Windows 95 platform:

1. Western and Eastern European languages, plus Indonesian, which are based on single-byte character sets (SBCSs) and are written from left to right:

         English
         German
         French
         Spanish
         Swedish
         Dutch
         Italian
         Norwegian
         Danish
         Finnish
         Portuguese-Brazil
         Portuguese-Portugal
         Russian
         Czech
         Polish
         Hungarian
         Turkish
         Greek
         Basque
         Catalan
         Indonesian
   

2. Middle East languages, plus Thai, which are based on SBCSs from both right to left and left to right:

         Arabic
         Hebrew
         Thai
   

3. Far East languages, which are based on double-byte character sets (DBCSs) and are written from both left to right and, in certain types of applications, from top to bottom:

         Japanese
         Korean
         Simplified Chinese
         Traditional Chinese