Internet Explorer 8 is now available in 18 additional languages

Original: Internet Explorer 8 is now available in 18 additional languages

We are pleased to announce the availability of Internet Explorer 8 in 18 additional languages. Internet Explorer 8 is now available in a total of 43 languages.

List of NEW Internet Explorer 8 Languages:

Language	Code	Windows Vista		Windows Server 2008		Windows XP
		X86	X64	X86	X64	X86
Bulgarian	BGR	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bosnian (Cyrillic)	BSC	Yes	-	-	-	Yes
Bosnian (Latin)	BSB	Yes	-	-	-	Yes
Catalan	CAT	Yes	-	-	-	Yes
Croatian	HRV	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Estonian	ETI	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hindi	HIN	Yes	-	-	-	Yes
Latvian	LVI	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Lithuanian	LTH	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Macedonian	MKI	Yes	-	-	-	Yes
Romanian	ROM	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Serbian (Cyrillic)	SRB	Yes	-	-	-	Yes
Serbian (Latin)	SRL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Slovakian	SKY	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Slovenian	SLV	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Thai	THA	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ukrainian	UKR	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Vietnamese	VIT	Yes	-	-	-	Yes

We have also made available Windows Vista/ Windows Server 2008 Language Packs for these languages and can be downloaded from here.

Who can install and benefit from Internet Explorer Language packs:

If you had already installed Internet Explorer 8 in English and you had an underlying Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 operating system in any of the above languages, you can experience localized Internet Explorer 8 by installing the Internet Explorer 8 Language pack that matches your operating system language(s). Users who have more than one Language pack installed on their machine could benefit from installing Language packs as well.

Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 is an upcoming release planned for a mid-May 2009. Internet Explorer 8 MUI for Windows XP, Windows Server 2008 will ship in two MUI packs.

• Internet Explorer 8 MUI pack applicable to Windows XP x86 and Windows Server 2003 x86 for the following languages –
  • Arabic, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Hong Kong), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Bulgarian, Croatian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Slovenian, Slovakian, Thai
• Internet Explorer 8 MUI pack applicable to Windows Server 2003 x64 and Windows XP x64 PRO for the following languages –
  • Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese (Brazil)

Note: If you have Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 and OS MUI pack installed, we recommend you install the English version of Internet Explorer 8 and then install the Internet Explorer 8 MUI pack for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (matching your Operating system and architecture).

Furthermore, Internet Explorer 8 will be made available shortly in an additional 20 languages. Please stay tuned.

List of upcoming localized Internet Explorer 8 languages:

Albanian Assamese Basque Bengali (Bangladesh) Bengali (India) Gujarati Indonesian Kannada Kazakh Konkani

Kyrgyz Malay (Brunei Darussalam) Malay (Malaysia) Malayalam Marathi Oriya Punjabi Tamil Telugu Uzbek (Latin)

Thanks,
Vishwac Sena Kannan
International Program Manager | Internet Explorer