It also removes the titlebar and borders from the window so you can’t move or resize it. The FFXI window will be in a mode called “Always on Top” and as stated it will always be on top of other windows. There is one problem with using AppLocale right now though. From there you can drag/drop/cut/copy/paste it to wherever you like Quick Launch, Desktop, another directory in your Start Menu… Where does it drop it? In Start > Programs > AppLocale. Of course, creating a shortcut saves you the trouble of constantly going through this wizard in order to run the Launcher. When you run AppLocale by itself, it’ll ask you what program to run, and at the end if you want to create a shortcut for it. If you don’t want to set your system’s locale to Japanese, you also have the option of using a program provided by Microsoft known as AppLocale.ĪppLocale basically does what the above option does, except it only does it to the one program you want to run in the Japanese locale, instead of your entire system. A future update to Windower or the IME plugin should allow you (according to replies from Cliff in other threads) to set this back to English and Windower will take care of the rest. Setting it to Japanese will cause minor quirks to appear in many of your windows programs (the most prominent being that all your backslashes will appear as Yen symbols), however it will let Windower run as intended. You have two options for this, both with their own quirks: Control Panel Advanced TabĬontrol Panel > Regional and Language Options > Advanced Tab Once you’re done installing and rebooting, come back to this window. Do a search on Microsoft’s site, and make sure you don’t mistake the ones designed for MS Office. Win98) users CAN download them because it was never included with the windows installation CDs. Tough luck if you don’t have them, you can’t download these files for XP. You WILL require your Windows XP CDs in order to install this option. Install files for East Asian languages must be checked. Configuring the IME Installing the IME Control Panel Languages TabĬontrol Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages Tab If you’re already able to type Japanese on your computer, then obviously you already have the IME installed, so this first section is not for you. If you’re here trying to find out how to get the emoticons to show up, you’ll have to find someone else to teach you, or learn to read hiragana and katakana before asking me. I wrote this to help those that can actually speak Japanese but have little knowledge in the means of making their computer let them type it in FFXI. In order to use it, Japanese language support must be installed, and Japanese must be selected as the default non-unicode language in Windows. This allows you to type text in Japanese. IME implements the Japanese Input Method Editor in FFXI.

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