greek fonts in vista

I just bought windows vista (english).. so, i'm in athens, greece and there
is no greek fonts in there... where can I get them? because every time I
tried, I couldn't install or even download them. I'm afraid I will need the
whole procedure, just in case..
Thank you in advance.. for taking the time to read my question..

Joanna K.

P.S. I don't have "Office", I'm wokring with wordpad for the moment..

Hello j.k.,

Wit Vista Ultimate you can download the Greek langauge package.

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> I just bought windows vista (english).. so, i'm in athens, greece and
> there
> is no greek fonts in there... where can I get them? because every time
> I
> tried, I couldn't install or even download them. I'm afraid I will
> need the
> whole procedure, just in case..
> Thank you in advance.. for taking the time to read my question..
> Joanna K.
>
> P.S. I don't have "Office", I'm wokring with wordpad for the moment..
>

If you are a licensed user of Windows Vista Ultimate, you should be able to
obtain the Greece Language Pack by opening the Windows Update explorer >
View Updates > check off the language pack and click install.

Once it has been downloaded, In Control Panel go to > Regional and Language
Options
Keyboards and Languages > Display Laguage > Install/uninstall languages
--
Andre
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"J.K." <J.K.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8FDBDF16-5504-43FF-8C7F-...
>I just bought windows vista (english).. so, i'm in athens, greece and there
> is no greek fonts in there... where can I get them? because every time I
> tried, I couldn't install or even download them. I'm afraid I will need
> the
> whole procedure, just in case..
> Thank you in advance.. for taking the time to read my question..
>
> Joanna K.
>
> P.S. I don't have "Office", I'm wokring with wordpad for the moment..

gia xara,
an theleis mono na grafeis me elinikous xaraktires tote orismenes
gramatoseires opos Arial, Verdana, kai times new roma, upostirizoun kai
ellinika.

Profanos den exeis egatastisei to "eliniko pliktrologio" omos auto tha to
kaneis apo

Start> control Panel> Regional and Language Options> Keyboards and
languages[tab]>change keyboard [button]> add [button]

Then you will have a language bar on the taskbar and you will be able to
switch between languages with alt+shift

see screenshot>>> http://i17.tinypic.com/4kjkgwo.jpg

Eplizo na voithisa... ama xriasteis tipota allo.. ego edo eimai :-)



"J.K." <J.K.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8FDBDF16-5504-43FF-8C7F-...
>I just bought windows vista (english).. so, i'm in athens, greece and there
> is no greek fonts in there... where can I get them? because every time I
> tried, I couldn't install or even download them. I'm afraid I will need
> the
> whole procedure, just in case..
> Thank you in advance.. for taking the time to read my question..
>
> Joanna K.
>
> P.S. I don't have "Office", I'm wokring with wordpad for the moment..

"Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote...
> Wit Vista Ultimate you can download the Greek langauge package.

Gruess Gott, Meinolf

That is correct. However, there is no need to install a Greek MUI onto
Vista, just to use Greek fonts and keyboard. Every edition of Vista (Home,
Business, Ultimate) has all the fonts and NLS support already built-in, to
enable Greek text input (oder Deutsch, Chinesisch, usw :-)

Poster "speed demon" has given the right answer for the OP.

Apologies for being pedeantic :-) but I see a lot of misinformation in this
newsgroup about language packs. MUIs are *not* necessary to work in other
languages and scripts; nor is Vista Ultimate required to work in multiple
languages and scripts.

Mit fruendliche Gruessen,

--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote ...
> If you are a licensed user of Windows Vista Ultimate, you should be able
> to obtain the Greece Language Pack by opening the Windows Update explorer
> > View Updates > check off the language pack and click install.
>
> Once it has been downloaded, In Control Panel go to > Regional and
> Language Options
> Keyboards and Languages > Display Laguage > Install/uninstall languages

Hi Andre,

I respectfully disagree. It is not necessary to install the Greek MUI, just
to use a Greek Keyboard and fonts in Windows. In fact the font and NLS files
are already there, and installed in every edition of Vista (Home, Business
Ultimate) even without the MUI. All you need to do is go into Control Panel,
Regional and Language Options, Keyboards and Languages, and hit the "Change
keyboards" button. Then select Greek from te list; and probably, enable the
Language Bar too so you can switch back and forth.

The Greek MUI is only useful for making Windows display its own resources
(such as menus, icon labels, dialogue boxes etc) in Greek language. But the
MUI is not required to work with Greek langauge data (this is the same with
all the other MUIs as well - they only affect the Windows user interface;
not the languages that can be used or displayed by applications).

Poster "speed demon" has given the correct answer to the OP.

Pardon me for being pedantic :-); but, I see a lot of misunderstandings and
incorrect info in this newsgroup about langauges on Vista (admittedly,
Microsoft did not make it easy with their overly-complex approach to MUIs
etc).

Warm regards,

--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

A translation for google groups and anyone who may be interested.

if you want only to write with greek characters then many of the fonts
support greek and other languages,
like aria, verdana, times new roman.

What you need to do is install the greek keyboard, and you will do that from
:


Start> control Panel> Regional and Language Options> Keyboards and
languages[tab]>change keyboard [button]> add [button]

Then you will have a language bar on the taskbar and you will be able to
switch between languages with alt+shift

see screenshot>>> http://i17.tinypic.com/4kjkgwo.jpg



"speed demon" <> wrote in message
news:...
> gia xara,
> an theleis mono na grafeis me elinikous xaraktires tote orismenes
> gramatoseires opos Arial, Verdana, kai times new roma, upostirizoun kai
> ellinika.
>
> Profanos den exeis egatastisei to "eliniko pliktrologio" omos auto tha to
> kaneis apo
>
> Start> control Panel> Regional and Language Options> Keyboards and
> languages[tab]>change keyboard [button]> add [button]
>
> Then you will have a language bar on the taskbar and you will be able to
> switch between languages with alt+shift
>
> see screenshot>>> http://i17.tinypic.com/4kjkgwo.jpg
>
> Eplizo na voithisa... ama xriasteis tipota allo.. ego edo eimai :-)
>
>
>
> "J.K." <J.K.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8FDBDF16-5504-43FF-8C7F-...
>>I just bought windows vista (english).. so, i'm in athens, greece and
>>there
>> is no greek fonts in there... where can I get them? because every time I
>> tried, I couldn't install or even download them. I'm afraid I will need
>> the
>> whole procedure, just in case..
>> Thank you in advance.. for taking the time to read my question..
>>
>> Joanna K.
>>
>> P.S. I don't have "Office", I'm wokring with wordpad for the moment..
>
>

thank you all so much.. i didn't realise it was built in.. the "control
panel" answer was quite simple and helpfull..
thank you for all your help..

I have the same problem. BUT: Even if I did this, when I run programms in
greek instead of greek letters I just see many questionmarks and weird
letters.