Wuhtzu Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 HeyI have often thought about removing all languages from my Windows XP Pro cd except for danish (my first language) and english (native language of the os, so can't be removed), but I don't know what the consequences are.What happens when I remove languages, what can't I use anymore / view anymore?Best regardsWuhtzu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelsenellenelvian Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Do you read and write any Asian lang? NO? Out it goes then. It is as simple as that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wuhtzu Posted March 25, 2008 Author Share Posted March 25, 2008 So if I remove some asian language I'm unable to see symbols (characters) from that language on for example a webpage?So if I removed lets say danish and german I wouldn't be able to see Æ, Ø, Å (from danish) and Ö (from german)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelsenellenelvian Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 (edited) You can view them on webpages. At least from my experiences. I can see your letters fine and I have visited asian pages and viewed them.Maybe Nuhi can spread some more light. Edited March 25, 2008 by Kelsenellenelvian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wuhtzu Posted March 28, 2008 Author Share Posted March 28, 2008 Just wanted to give an update on the matter:I went ahead and removed all languages except for those under "Western Europe and United States" and did the installation just fine. Today, for the first time, I have noticed something which might be they way it is due to my language removal:Take a look at this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WasabiThe very fist line contains (or at least I think it does) some asian symbols which are being displayed as ? in my browser (FF 2.0.0.13). This is what I see:Wasabi (Japanese: わさび,ワサビ , 山葵 (originally written 和佐比); Wasabia japonica, Cochlearia wasabi, or Eutrema japonica) is a member of the Brassicaceae family...Can you guys see some asian symbols instead of the question marks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool400 Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 I can confirm, that there are asian symbols - no "?"!!! So this might be due to the removal of asian language...I'm also asking myself if I can remove ALL languages and ALL keyboard-layouts - AFAIK the native language stays in the system, right? So my german XP will stay german if I remove all languages including the german-ones...I hope I personally don't need to see language-symbols of languages, that I don't speak, read or write (and this is beside German only English and a little French!) Regardscool400 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wuhtzu Posted March 28, 2008 Author Share Posted March 28, 2008 The native language of the operating system stays - the nLite description says so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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