Operating system requirements vary depending on the language you're working with.
East Asian languages (Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean)
To enter characters for these languages, use one of the following operating systems:
If the language version of your operating system doesn't match the language you want to type, install an IME to enter text.
Learn more about IMEs and installing IMEs.
South Asian languages (Thai, Hindi, and Vietnamese)
To enter characters for these languages, use one of the following operating systems:
Baltic, Central European, Greek, Turkish, and languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet
To enter characters for these languages, use one of the following operating systems:
If you are running a language version of an operating system that doesn't match the language you want to type, install system support for that language.
Right-to-left languages
To enter characters for these languages, use one of the following operating systems:
If you are running a language version of Windows 2000 that doesn't match the language you want to type, install system support for that language.