International Versions of Windows 95

Last reviewed: January 15, 1998
Article ID: Q118495
4.00 WINDOWS kbother

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.

MORE INFORMATION

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
    


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Last reviewed: January 15, 1998
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