International Versions of Windows 95 (118495)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Platform Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.0
This article was previously published under Q118495

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

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:7/11/2005
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