bilingual problems

i am a native english speaker and my wife is chinese and i've been trying to figure out how to set up a completely bilingual system.
i'd like to be able to set up my wife as a second user on the computer with win xp entirely in chinese, but so far the best that i've been able to do with the language settings is to get chinese characters to display properly.
has anyone had any experience with this sort of problem? i'd like to get this working without having to buy another version of windows and dual boot. i'd have to ask for some more detailed instructions because i seem to have exhausted the windows help file, as far as i know.
thanks

 

Hopefully someone can give you specifics for making a single installation completely bi-lingual. I'm not sure if it's possible though. Probably not.

I think your best option might be to set up dual-boot but rather than getting another OS, you should be able to set up a second install of XP on another partition. That way the two loads could at least share many of the files. A couple of 9Gb partitions to hold the OS loads and a data partition that used the remaining space should do it.

 

Excuse me for being an idiot, but do you share a keyboard? How does that work? How does one type in Chinese? I'm sure I'm not the only person who ever wondered about this, but I'm probably the only one bold enough to admit I don't know, and I'm curious. TIA for an explanation.

Johanna

 

edit note - Jason_H, thanks for the heads up on this poster.

His language non-question (that you answered very nicely too I might add) is no longer with us.

Newt

 

Actually, you can select what languages to install in the installation process, and when you type in japanese, its much the same as OSX, amazing huh?

 

Hi Newt,

I got a notification that arden posted to one of "my" threads - went looking. OK, cleared up now.

Regards - Charles