Microsoft WindowsXP Professional

MS Windows XP Professional VUP NL CD Windows XP Professional, a World-Ready Operating System
Windows is developed with English as the default user interface. From its initial design, the Microsoft Windows NT® operating system incorporated international support through the Unicode character encoding system. Unicode is a 16-bit character encoding capable of representing most of the languages in common use throughout the world. The Unicode Character Standard primarily encodes scripts rather than languages; that is, when two or more languages share a set of symbols that have a historically related derivation, the union of the set of symbols of each language is unified into a single collection identified as a script. These collections of symbols (scripts) then serve as inventories of symbols, which are drawn upon to write particular languages. In many cases, a single script may write several languages (e.g., the Latin script). In other cases only one language employs a particular script (an example is Hangul, which is used only for the Korean language). Additionally, the writing systems for some languages use more than one script—Japanese traditionally uses the Han (Kanji), Hiragana, and Katakana scripts, and modern Japanese usage mixes in the Latin script as well. As a result of this encoding system, Windows XP, Windows Embedded, and Windows Server 2003 allow users to write, edit, and print documents in hundreds of languages.