# Microsoft Language Pack Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-language-pack-question/126874>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 3, 2002, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-language-pack-question/126874 "2002-09-03T22:27:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Netbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-language-pack-question/126874/1 "2002-09-03T22:27:02Z")

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I’ve been having quite a bit of trouble installing the language packs that I need to view Japanese text in Internet Explorer 6 . When I used Windows 98, it was just a quick download away, but with Windows 2000, it really wants the CD in order to install them. Is there any way to get the language packs without the CD, as I left mine as home, and currently cannot access it? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-language-pack-question/126874/2 "2002-09-03T23:54:44Z")

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Is [this](http://search.office.microsoft.com/result.aspx?qu=language) any help?

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**Author:** ![Netbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2002, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-language-pack-question/126874/3 "2002-09-04T22:11:24Z")

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Thanks for the link, but that was more for the internationalization of different Office products, and what I’m looking for is something for Internet Explorer.

Thanks for helping though!

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**Author:** ![\_xiao\_wenti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b782af/32.png) [@\_xiao\_wenti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_xiao_wenti)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-language-pack-question/126874/4 "2002-09-06T10:39:58Z")

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You might want to check out NJ Star communicator. They publish Chinese, Korean, and Japanese plugins, as well as, a really nice Chinese word processor.

[http://www.njstar.com/](http://www.njstar.com/)

Good luck.