"Curt Fischer" wrote ...
> kuri wrote:
>> "There are 10 traditional Chinese IMEs supported in Windows XP" doesn't mean
>> that the complete IMEs are included in XP that you get on the standard
>> Japanese PC. You have to buy them in addition, idem for the additional
>> dictionaries. Imagine the reaction of  Brett's customers if he says : "You
>> should just pay 3 mans to update your IME and it will input your grand-dad's
>> name smoothly from the IME in your language.....oh, you also have a Korean
>> grand-uncle ? another 3 man....for your Chinese cousin, well, 3 more
>> mans...".
> 
> I don't think this is true any longer.  It is certainly not true for the 
> Japanese IME, which I legally installed on my system without paying 
> Microsoft anything.  All you need is a legal copy of XP.
> 
> I would imagine the situation is the same for Chinese IMEs.

<aol> Me t00. </aol>

First Google hit for IME + 中国語
http://realhima.at.infoseek.co.jp/

Windows XPに中国語入力を追加する
「コントロールパネル」→「日付・時刻・地域と言語のオプション」→
「地域と言語のオプション」→「テキストサービスと入力言語」→「詳
細」→「設定」→「入力言語の追加」で、簡体字の場合、入力言
語「中国語（中国）」・キーボードレイアウト/入力システム「Chinese 
（Simplified）Microsoft Pinyin IME3.0」です。繁体字の場合、入力
言語「中国語（台湾）」・キーボードレイアウト/入力システム「MS 
New Phonetic IME 2002a（＝新注音）」です。

You'll notice nowhere in the Windows XP instructions does it 
include "Fork over money to Microsoft"