Solved Question About Ultimate and Non-Western Languages

Spice

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Recently I bought and installed Windows 7 Ultimate (32-bit). The main selling point to me was that it had support for 38 different languages, one of which was Japanese. I was under the impression that this meant I could have my locale set to English, but also run software in Japanese on the fly without the text being a garbled mess like I used to see running them in Vista Home while in the English locale (unless I use this AppLocale program), but I could change my locale to Japanese and it would work on restart. Apparently I was wrong. While using some programs like Paint Tool Sai (and its installer for that matter) it has that mess rather than Japanese kana and kanji. It does work if I change my local to Japanese, but I don't want to have to restart my computer every time I want to use these programs
So, that being said, is there some setting that needs to be enabled, or did I just waste money on a feature that I misunderstood? Thank you all in advanced for the help.
 

My Computer

OS
Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
You misunderstood, the language packs are for total conversion to another language.
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Alienware Aurora ALX R4
OS
Windows 10 Pro (x64)
CPU
Intel Core i7-3930K (3.2GHz - 4.5GHz)
Motherboard
Alienware Aurora-R4 x79
Memory
4x Samsung 4GB PC3-12800 DDR3 (16GB 1600MHz)
Graphics Card(s)
Nvidia Geforce GTX 690
Sound Card
SteelSeries Siberia Elite
Monitor(s) Displays
Dell UltraSharp U3011
Screen Resolution
2560x1600
Hard Drives
Samsung 850 Pro 256 GB, Seagate 1TB Desktop Hybrid HDD, 2x Western Digital 4TB Green HDD
PSU
875W Some Dell PSU <.<
Case
Alienware Aurora ALX
Cooling
Custom Liquid Cooling (EK CPU & GPU blocks) dual EK 480RAD
Keyboard
Logitech G710+ Mechanical
Mouse
Logitech G700s
Internet Speed
Verizon Fios (50 mbps average)
Other Info
Server: Intel NUC D54250WYK: i5-4250U, 16GB, 256 GB mSATA, Windows Server 2012 R2
Well, that's a disappointment. Oh well, I'm sure I can make use of some of the other features it comes with (primarily the "previous versions" feature). Are there any suggestions to achieve what I wanted (I believe AppLocale was only intended for Windows XP, and people weren't sure about Vista at the time I used it)?

Edit:
I found a step-by-step on how to install AppLocale on Windows 7 here:http://www.elitepvpers.com/forum/fo...s/407422-csro-applocale-windows-7-useful.html

So I will just mark this as solved.
 
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My Computer

OS
Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
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