While Microsoft did give us a nice little treat by providing us with a developer preview of Windows 8, they did forget to think about those who don’t speak English. Of course it’s understandable that Microsoft only released the developer preview in English as it’s still pre-beta software and is really only for testing purposes, but that doesn’t mean that the non-English speaking community can’t try it out.
While Microsoft doesn’t officially offer any languages packs for Windows 8, Martin has published a post over at Ghacks which talks about how you can get some. A fan project has been pulled together which is working on getting together as many language packs as possible that will work with Windows 8. At this moment they’ve currently got French, Spanish and Italian language packs for both the 32-bit and 64-bit edition of the Windows 8 Developer Preview.
Of course since these aren’t official languages packs for Windows 8, don’t be surprised if there’s the odd mistake and also if it interferes with Windows 8 in anyway. While it shouldn’t cause any problems, you can never be certain.
But if you really want to try out Windows 8 and you don’t speak English, then it’s definitely worth giving it a try.
The language packs are installed via the WDP Universal Language Installer which you can find here on the development website. You’ll have to download the language packs separately and then install them via this program
The way the developers have put these developer packs together is by converting Windows 7 SP 1 languages packs to work with the Windows 8 developer preview. Of course because Windows 8 is slightly different and has other features etc.. don’t be surprised if not everything is fully translated. But it’s better than nothing if you don’t speak English.
So if you fancy installing any of these language packs, head over to the site here for full instructions.
Of course if you want the official Windows 8 language packs, you’ll probably have to wait until Microsoft release the final edition of Windows 8.
Source:
Winunleaked via Ghacks
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