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Changing your locale in Windows

Changing your locale in Windows

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Changing your locale in Windows

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- Local testing in Windows is very straightforward. To start with, I'm going to open my Start menu, and start typing control panel, and here we are I'm going to go ahead and open the Control Panel, and in this list of items is Language. Opening a Language menu we can see that right now there's only one language and one local installed here on this machine, that's English for the United States. I'm going to go ahead and click the Add a language button, and you'll see that there's a very large list of potential languages that Microsoft supports to some extent. I'm going to actually back up here, if you look French is actually a stack of cards as opposed to a single card, and the reason is if we double click on this there are different regional varieties of French that we can choose from. I'm just going to pick French as spoken in France and click Add. Now you'll notice that immediately it says Keyboard layout French, what that means is I now have support for a keyboard layout for the US…

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