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[sonar87]

Having just started learning Japanese I went to try and enable support for reading/writing the characters on my laptop. However it say it requires a service pack (sp3) CD that I do not have. Is there any way I can get this working without the cd?

[Alexander]

Half a decade ago I had tried, and it appears the most simple method is to download (free)/purchase a copy of the disk (a few dollars.)

From a rough search, people seem to link to this, although am not sure what it allows:
Download Details - Microsoft Download Center - Windows XP Service Pack 3 MUI Pack Update

And this seems to be the main guide available:
Installing East Asian Language Support under Windows XP

[desireadil]

If you don't have cd you can simply download SP3 from the internet and you can easily install it.

[sonar87]

Sorry for the late response, had other problems with my computer in the mean time. I did try just installing the sp from the MS site, but that alone didn't do anything, and if there's anything else I needed to do with it, I don't know what.