International Configuration

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02/20/2014

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The Microsoft Windows® 98, Windows Millennium Edition (Me), Windows NT® 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP operating systems support international features of Microsoft Project 2002. However, if your users work with a set of different languages that includes Asian languages, Indic languages, or right-to-left languages (such as Hebrew), Windows XP and Windows 2000 provide the best support for displaying and editing documents and for changing the language of the user interface.

Displaying the User Interface in Other Languages

The ability of Microsoft Project 2002 to display the user interface and Help in various languages depends on the capabilities of the operating system. Windows 98 and Windows Me provide fairly broad support within a single language category. Windows NT 4.0 has more flexibility, and Windows 2000 and Windows XP provide support for all possible Microsoft Project user interface languages.

Some code pages provide support for groups of languages; other code pages provide support for only a single language. Therefore, you should ensure that a user's system locale (which governs the code page of the user's computer) is set to a locale that supports the primary language the user needs.

For example, if your users work primarily in Japanese, set their system locale to Japanese (or have them run a Japanese version of Windows 98 or Windows Me). If your users work primarily in French, their system locale can be any Western European system locale (or they can run any Western European version of Windows 98or Windows Me).

The following table contains guidelines for getting the best support for displaying the Microsoft Project 2002 user interface and Help in Windows 98 and Windows Me.

Users running this language version of Windows 98 or Windows Me	Can display the user interface and Help in these languages
English, Western European, or Eastern European	English, Western European, and Eastern European
Asian	English and the matching Asian language
Right-to-left (Hebrew)	English, Western European, Eastern European, and the matching right-to-left language

The following table contains guidelines for getting the best support for displaying the Microsoft Project 2002 user interface and Help in Windows NT 4.0

Users running this language version of Windows NT 4.0	Can display the user interface and Help in these languages
English, Western European, or Eastern European	English, Western European, Eastern European, and Asian
Asian	English, Western European, Eastern European, and Asian
Right-to-left (Hebrew)	English, Western European, Eastern European, and the matching right-to-left language

The following table contains guidelines for getting the best support for displaying the Microsoft Project 2002 user interface and Help in Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Users running this language version of Windows 2000 or Windows XP	Can display the user interface and Help in these languages
Any	English, Western European, Eastern European, Asian, and right-to-left languages

Limitations of Displaying the User Interface in Other Languages

For some applications and features in Microsoft Project 2002, the native code page of the operating system must support the user interface language. For these applications and features, text in the user interface must be supported by the operating system's code page.

Displaying Help in Other Languages

When you change the Help language in Microsoft Project 2002, the Help content is displayed in the new language, but the Help user interface is still displayed in the Microsoft Project 2002 interface language. However, some elements of the Help user interface (such as the Contents tab, the Options menu, and toolbar Screen Tips) are always installed in the language version of Microsoft Project 2002 that was installed.

Furthermore, when you change the Help content language, the language must have code page support from your operating system. Otherwise, Help topics listed in the Contents tab will be unintelligible. In this case, you can use the Answer Wizard and Index tabs to find Help topics. However, if you want to use these tabs, you must display Help in a language that the Answer Wizard supports.

If you change the Help language to a language that is not supported by the Answer Wizard, the language must have code page support. In this case, Help displays the Full Text Search tab to allow you to find Help topics.

Displaying Documents in Other Languages

Users running Microsoft Project 2002 can display documents in a wider range of languages than they can for the Microsoft Project 2002 user interface and Help. For example, German users running Microsoft Project 2002 under the German language version of Windows 2000 or Windows XP can view Japanese documents, even though they cannot switch to the Japanese user interface.

All language versions of Windows 2000 and Windows XP support displaying documents in all languages. The following table provides guidelines for getting the best support for displaying Microsoft Project 2002 documents in Windows 98, Windows Me, or Windows NT 4.0.

Users running this language version of Windows 98 , Windows Me, or Windows NT 4.0	Can display documents in these languages
English, Western European, Eastern European, or Asian	All languages, except right-to-left
Right-to-left (Arabic or Hebrew)	All languages

Editing Documents in Other Languages

Typically, if a user's operating system prevents the display of a certain language, users are not able to edit documents in that language. However, in the case of Asian documents, even though users can display documents, they might not be able to edit them without a special editing interface.

Input of Asian characters requires an Input Method Editor (IME). The Microsoft Project 2002 Multilanguage User Interface (MUI) Pack provides IMEs for Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. The IMEs allow users to edit Asian text in Microsoft Project 2002 files, regardless of the language version of their operating system. The Microsoft Project 2002 Proofing Tools package also includes IMEs.

Adding International Support to Windows 98 and Windows Me

If your international organization includes Windows 98 and Windows Me users who work with Microsoft Project 2002 files in several languages, you can add international capabilities to the operating system. Adding multilanguage support allows users to display, in foreign languages, characters that Windows 98 and Windows Me do not otherwise support; and adding keyboard support allows users to input characters not found on the U.S. keyboard.

To add multilanguage support

In Control Panel, double-click Add/Remove Programs, and then click the Windows Setup tab.

Select the MultiLanguage Support check box.

To install support for the selected languages, double-click Multilanguage Support and then select the languages you want.

To enter text in a given language, users need to use the appropriate keyboard layout.

To add keyboard support

In Control Panel, double-click Keyboard, and on the Language tab, click Add.

In the Add Language dialog box, choose a setting from the Language list.

To change the keyboard layout for a language, click the Properties button, and in the Language Properties dialog box, choose a setting from the Keyboard layout list.

To enable switching between keyboards by clicking an indicator on the task bar, select the Enable indicator on the taskbar check box.

Microsoft Project 2002 Companion Tools

The Microsoft Project 2002 Companion Tools package includes spelling checkers that help users create and edit Microsoft Project 2002 documents in more than 30 languages. Companion tools for all languages are included on all MUI Pack CDs.

Hard-disk space requirements for the Microsoft Project 2002 Companion Tools package vary by language. Companion tools for most languages require about 20 MB of hard-disk space in addition to what Microsoft Project 2002 requires. However, Asian languages require as much as 120 MB of hard-disk space in addition to what Microsoft Office requires — including the necessary fonts and Input Method Editors (IMEs).

You can install Project 2002 Companion Tools at the same time that you deploy Microsoft Project 2002 or Microsoft Project 2002 with Multilanguage User Interface Packs.

Administering Fonts

Microsoft Project 2002 provides fonts that allow users to view and edit documents in different languages and across different scripts. Some of these fonts are installed with the Microsoft Project 2002 Multilanguage User Interface Pack (MUI) Pack. Some international fonts supplied with Microsoft Project 2002 might update Microsoft Windows fonts that users already have.

Understanding how Microsoft Project 2002 uses fonts for different languages can help you administer fonts for users across your international organization.

International Fonts Included with Microsoft Project 2002

The Microsoft Project 2002 MUI Pack includes fonts necessary for working with the international features of Microsoft Project. These additional fonts allow you to:

Display the user interface and Help in various languages.

Display text in various languages—in an existing document or text that you enter—including languages that require IMEs.

In addition to the fonts in the MUI Pack, which support particular character sets, Microsoft Project 2002 also includes a complete Unicode font, which supports all characters in all of the languages supported by Office. This Unicode font is especially useful when you cannot apply multiple fonts.

The following table lists the fonts provided by the MUI Pack, along with the code pages and languages they support.

Font (file)	Code Page	Supported languages
BatangChe (BatangCh.ttf), Gulim (Gulim.ttf)	1250, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1257, 949	All European languages, Korean
MingLiu (Mingliu.ttf)	932, 936, 950	English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese
MS UI Gothic (Msuigoth.ttf)	1250, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1257, 932	All European languages, Japanese

The following table lists the fonts provided by Microsoft Project 2002, along with the code pages and languages that the fonts support.

Font (file)	Code Page	Supported languages
Arial Unicode MS (Arialuni.ttf)	All	All
Batang (Batang.ttf)	250, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1257, 949	Most European languages, Korean
PMingLiu (PMingliu.ttf)	932, 936, 950	English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese
MS Mincho (Msmincho.ttf)	1250, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1257, 932	Most European languages, Japanese
SimSun (Simsun.ttf)	936	English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
Georgian and Armenian Font (Sylfaen.ttf)	1250, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1257, Unicode	Most European languages, Georgian, Armenian
Hindi Font (Mangal.ttf)	(Unicode)	Hindi
Tamil Font (Latha.ttf)	(Unicode)	Tamil

Updating Windows Fonts to Big Fonts

Many of the fonts that are included with Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, and Microsoft Windows 2000 are stored as big font files. The big font files include glyphs for multiple character sets, and accommodate many languages. Big font files include Tahoma, which is the default Microsoft Project 2002 user interface font for all languages, except Asian. When you install Microsoft Project 2002, the installation updates existing Windows fonts to big fonts, and installs additional fonts.

The following is a list of big fonts that Microsoft Project 2002 installs or updates:

Arial

Arial Black

Arial Bold

Arial Narrow

Bookman Old Style

Courier New

Garamond

Impact

Tahoma

Times New Roman

Trebuchet (Central and Eastern European languages only)

Verdana®

Installing Fonts that Support Multiple Languages

If your users frequently share documents across different scripts, you can install fonts that support those scripts.

In most cases, Microsoft Project 2002 Setup automatically installs or updates fonts to display characters in multiple scripts. For example, a document formatted in the Arial font can display Western European, Cyrillic, Turkish, Baltic, Central European, Greek, Arabic, or Hebrew text.

For Asian languages or Unicode characters, however, you must install the appropriate fonts on the users' computers.

Installing Asian Fonts

Microsoft Project 2002 provides Asian fonts for four languages: Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. If users need to edit or read documents in these languages, they must install the appropriate Asian fonts.

Installing the Unicode Font

Some documents can display only one font at a time. However, these documents can display multilingual text in more than one script, if you use the Unicode font. The Arial Unicode font provided by Microsoft Project 2002 allows users to input and display characters across scripts and across code pages that support the various scripts.

Installing a Unicode font on users' computers presents some disadvantages. First, the Unicode font file is much larger than font files based on code pages. Second, some characters might look different from their character equivalents in code pages. For these reasons, do not use the Unicode font as your default font. However, if your users share documents across many different scripts, the Unicode font might be your best choice.

Printing Documents in an International Setting

Using the international features of Microsoft Project 2002 in documents creates some special requirements for printing. You must ensure that your printers are configured for the correct paper size and for font substitution.

Specifying the correct paper size

Many printers allow you to load both A4 and letter-size paper. If users in Europe exchange documents with users in the United States, having both A4 and letter-size paper in your printers accommodates everyone's documents.

Even if your printers are stocked only with the paper commonly used in your part of the world, most Microsoft Project 2002 documents are printed with no loss of text. Microsoft Project 2002 files are scaled to fit the printer's default paper size.

In some circumstances, you might not want documents scaled to fit the printer's default paper size. For example, if your printer has A4 set as its default paper size, but the printer also has letter-size paper, Microsoft Project 2002 cannot detect that both sizes are available. Because the printer can supply the correct size paper, you might want to turn off the resizing option.

Setting TrueType Fonts to Print Correctly

To display characters in multiple scripts, Microsoft Project 2002 uses big fonts. In addition to bold or italic, big fonts can also be Cyrillic, Greek, or one of several other scripts.

However, big fonts are also TrueType® fonts, and many laser printers substitute built-in printer fonts when printing documents that use TrueType fonts. Built-in printer fonts cannot render text in multiple scripts, so characters in other scripts do not print properly.

For example, your laser printer might substitute its own internal version of Arial, which accommodates only Western European characters. Microsoft Project 2002 uses the big font version of Arial to display Greek and Russian characters in documents, but if users print those documents, the Greek and Russian characters are printed as unintelligible Western European character strings.

To work around the problem, set the option in your printer driver to send TrueType fonts as graphics.