2.0 Common User Scenarios
A user is running the English version of Windows XP with the system locale set to English-US (Windows codepage 1252). This user wants to run a popular Japanese application that is code-page based. In order to run this app flawlessly in Windows XP, the user needs to set the system locale to Japanese (Windows cp 932) and reboot the machine. Two restrictions: the user might not be an administrator to force this setting change; and/or the user might not want to force a reboot.
AppLocale can be an attractive workaround in this scenario. The user does not need to be an administrator and no reboot is necessary.
This application should be very interesting to those of you (like myself) who work with some japanese applications often enough to have set your system locale to japan despite hating your backslash turn into a ¥, and other quirky things such as FixedSys turning into a big homofont which messes up the way mIRC looks -- not to mention broken DirectIM's mixing of pictures and text in AIM. Now you may set your codepages back to 1252-US English and feel like less of a geek.
Enjoy!
>Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003, Windows XP
shit sux
I am going to try this out soon. Will be useful for Winny and AA editors, methinks. Thanks for pointing it out.
Got a different download location than microsoft.com?
>Will be useful for Winny and AA editors
Ironically, it doesn't seem to work on Winny and some AA editors