Requirements:
The requirement for configuring Asian fonts in WinCC flexible is Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Professional. You do not explicitly need an English version of either system with Multilingual User Interface (MUI). You only need an MUI-compatible operating system if you wish to change the interface language of Windows.

Note:
With regional versions of Microsoft Windows, you can only install Asian keyboards and Asian fonts. You cannot change the interface language of Microsoft Windows.
The Asian versions of Microsoft Windows already support Asian languages, so you do not need to make any more settings in the operating system.

Here, we explain the installation and settings for

• Windows 2000 Professional (English)
• Windows XP Professional (English) and
• WinCC flexible,

which you need for creating a "Simplified Chinese" configuration with WinCC flexible.
The procedure for Traditional Chinese, Korean and Japanese is the same.

Note:
You need to make more settings in the operating system when using Asian fonts in ProTool. More information is available in Entry ID: 2182387.

Settings in Windows 2000 Professional
Please note that you need administrator rights for making settings in Windows 2000.
 

No.	Procedure
1	Retro-installation of "Simplified Chinese" in Windows 2000 (English) Open the "Regional Options" item in the Control Panel. Select the "General" tab and under "Language settings for the system" set a check mark for "Simplified Chinese". Fig. 01 - Regional Options - General   Then click on "Apply". => The data (from the Windows 2000 Professional CD) is retro-installed and then you must do a Restart.
2	Add input locale Switch to the "Input Locales" tab and under "Installed input locales" click on "Add...". Fig. 02 - Regional Options
3	Select input locale Under "Input locale:" you select the setting "Chinese (PRC)". In the "Keyboard layout/IME" field, you select the IME (Input Method Editor) "Chinese (Simplified) - QuangPin" and acknowledge the settings with "OK". Fig. 03 - Input locale and IME   Click "OK" to close the "Regional Options" dialog.  => The data (from the Windows 2000 Professional CD) is retro-installed and then you must do a Restart.
4	Change keyboard layout/IME in Windows 2000 Click on the IME icon in the toolbar (taskbar) of Windows 2000. Select the Chinese keyboard layout (IME) in the pop-up menu. Fig. 04 - Select keyboard layout   Specific settings are necessary in the WinCC flexible project for entering Chinese fonts. More information about this is available in the section "Settings in WinCC flexible" below.

Settings in Windows XP Professional
Please note that you need administrator rights for making settings in Windows XP.
 

No.	Procedure
1	Retro-installation of "Simplified Chinese" in Windows XP (English) Open "Regional and Language Options" in the Control Panel. Select the "Languages" tab and under "Supplemental language support" set a check mark for "Install files for East Asian languages". Then click on "Apply". Fig. 05 - Retro-installation of Asian languages   Insert the Windows XP Professional CD in the drive. Acknowledge with "OK". Fig. 06 - Insert Disk dialog   => The data (from the Windows XP Professional CD) is retro-installed and then you must do a Restart.
2	Add an input language Select the "Language" tab and click on "Details..." to add an input language for Chinese via the "Add..." button. Fig. 07 - Text Services and Input Languages
3	Add input locale Under "Input language", select the setting "Chinese (PRC)" and select an IME (Input Method Editor) under "Keyboard layout/IME". Then acknowledge with "OK". Fig. 08 - Adding an IME   Close the "Text Services and Input Languages" dialog with "OK". Close the Regional and Language Options dialog with "OK".
4	Settings of the keyboard layout and IME in Windows XP Click on the IME icon in the toolbar (taskbar) of Windows XP. Select the Chinese keyboard layout (IME) in the pop-up menu. Fig. 09 - Changing the keyboard layout

Settings in WinCC flexible
In the following section we explain all the steps necessary for entering and displaying Chinese characters in WinCC flexible ES and RT (Runtime).
 

No.	Procedure
1	Start WinCC flexible Start WinCC flexible ES. Select an operator panel (MP277 10" Touch for example). Fig. 10 - Selecting an operator panel
2	Add project language In the project tree you click on "Project > Language Settings > Project Languages". Select "Chinese (People's Republic of China)". Fig. 11 - Adding a project language
3	Add Runtime language  Open the "Languages and Fonts" tab under "Project -> Device Settings". Mark "Chinese (People's Republic of China)" as Runtime language. Note: If you do not activate the Runtime language, then you can configure this language in the WinCC flexible Engineering System, but it is not available in the WinCC flexible Runtime. Fig. 12 - Adding a Runtime language
4	Add a text field and change the editing language Add a text field to "Screen_1" (2) from the "Simple Objects" (1) toolbox. Change the "Editing language" (3) to "Chinese" (4). Fig. 13 - Changing the editing language
5	Add Chinese characters Enter an arbitrary Chinese text. Note: Make sure that you have selected the Chinese keyboard layout - see Fig. 04 or Fig. 09. Fig. 14 - Adding Chinese characters   Note: If you have selected the Chinese keyboard layout, but can nevertheless not enter any Chinese characters, then change the keyboard layout from "A" to the "Windows Symbol" - see Fig. 15 - in the keyboard toolbox. This toolbox is only visible when you place the cursor in a text field. Fig. 15 - Keyboard toolbox   Note: You must use the "SimSun" or "宋体" font to display the Chinese characters on a panel.
6	Add button with system function Add a button from the "Simple Objects" toolbox. Optionally you can label the button with "Language". Configure the system function ""SetLanguage" under the "Press" event in the settings. Define the "Toggle" mode as language. Fig. 16 - Adding a button
7	Start WinCC flexible Runtime Start WinCC flexible Runtime or transfer the WinCC flexible project to the operator panel. Click the button (1). Terminate the WinCC flexible Runtime (2). Fig. 17 - WinCC flexible Runtime

Note:
If you need the interface language, i.e. menus and dialogs, for configuring in Chinese in WinCC flexible, then change or install the relevant interface language.

You need WinCC flexible 2004 ASIA and WinCC flexible 2005 ASIA respectively for WinCC flexible 2004 and 2005. Note that you cannot install all the editions of WinCC flexible and WinCC flexible ASIA on one operating system.

The Asian interface languages are available in all editions from WinCC flexible 2007 onwards. All the interface languages available can be retro-installed with the product CD of WinCC flexible.

More information changing the interface language is available in Entry ID 18922331.
   

WinCC flexible	Languages
Version	German, English, French, Italian, Spanish	English, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Korean, Japanese
2004	X
2004 ASIA		X
2005	X
2005 ASIA		X
From 2007 onwards	X	X

Table 01 - Languages available for the different versions of WinCC flexible

Keywords:
MUI = Multilingual User Interface, Language settings, Configure in multiple languages, System settings, Language import, Language export, Language extension