What exactly happens when Complex Script Support is enabled?

Posted by Ravi Chhabra on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Ravi Chhabra
Published on 2010-03-20T18:06:57Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 18:11 UTC
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When we click the check box "Install files for complex script and right to left languages (including Thai)" in Regional and Language settings what exactly happens?

  1. Changes to registry keys?
  2. I noticed that it installs some .fon files and keyboard dlls.

Is this totally necessary if one just wish to read complex script on Windows XP? My test inside VirutalBox as Windows 7 as the host OS seems to indicate that for reading Complex Script need not be enabled. Yet that's not what all the literature on the subject says. What's going on?

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