What do you call it when your version of Visual Studio promises not to
support its own language, promises not to support most other countries'
languages, and promises only 7-bit clean ASCII?  Although such an
environment is very useful when coding device drivers and maybe some other

I have installed the "Update for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (897338)" which
adds, among others, Pashto(Afghanistan) to the system.
I have noticed two odd effects in the CultureInfo object for Pashto.
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I am running Windows XP SP2 - the English version. Is it possible to install
and use the Japanese version of Office 2007 (Personal edition). I have
already an English version of Office XP running with IME to type/write Kanji,
hiragana and katakana.

I want to load satellite assembly depending on cluture set.  I created
one satellite assembly using al.exe and then in folder say 'de' i
copied this file.
When i set culture as 'de' and try to load the assembly its not