To display different languages and script, one has to install support for the script. Windows 2000 has support for displaying many scripts. Script is the writing style of language .For example, English and many western languages are written in Roman Script. Arabic, Farsi, Urdu are written in Arabic Script. Hindi, Bengali, Tamil are written in Indic Script. Every script has its own features. Arabic Script is written from left to right and characters changes their shape according to the context.

To install support for Arabic or any other Script. Open Control Panel --> Regional Options --> Language Setting for the System and check your desired Script(Arabic in our case). After checking Arabic click on OK and Arabic Script support is installed on our computer and you can have input locale in Arabic, Farsi and Urdu.

For input, keyboard for Arabic, Farsi and Other languages can be installed from Control Panel ---> Keyboard --> Input Locale --> Add.

So it is the configuration for displaying multilingual text. Now we will start C# IDE and explore its features. Throughout the article we will only concentrate on the code written for multilingual features. The code for form creation, adding controls to form and event handling will be generated by the IDE and will not be discussed.