The ink recognition capabilities in Ink Editor for Word and Ink to Text for PowerPoint support many languages for conversion, but not all languages that are supported by Office.
Adjust the input language in Word
In Word, in order to insert text with the caret symbol, Ink Editor must recognize your writing language. To adjust the input language to the one you want, see Change the default input language for Windows.
Add an Office editing language in PowerPoint
In PowerPoint, in order to for the Ink to Text feature to recognize your preferred languages, you must set the Office editing languages. See Add an editing language or set language preferences in Office.
Supported languages
| Language tag | Coverage |
|---|---|
| af-ZA | Afrikaans in all locations |
| bs-Latn-BA | Bosnian, in Latin, in all locations |
| ca | Catalan in all locations |
| cs | Czech in all locations |
| da | Danish in all locations |
| de-CH | German in Switzerland and Liechtenstein |
| de-DE | German in Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, and Namibia |
| el-GR | Greek in Greece |
| en-AU | English in Australia |
| en-CA | English in Canada |
| en-GB | English in the United Kingdom, and all other locations not specified in this table |
| en-IN | English in India |
| en-US | English in the U.S. and the Philippines |
| es-AR | Spanish in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay |
| es-ES | Spanish in Spain, and all other locations not specified in this table |
| es-MX | Spanish in Mexico and the United States |
| eu-ES | Basque in all locations |
| fi | Finnish in all locations |
| fr | French in France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, and all other locations |
| hr | Croatian in all locations |
| ga-IE | Irish in all locations |
| gd-GB | Scottish Gaelic in all locations |
| gl-ES | Galician in all locations |
| ja | Japanese in all locations |
| lb-LU | Luxembourgish in all locations |
| id-ID | Indonesian in all locations |
| it | Italian in Italy, Switzerland, and all other locations |
| ko | Korean in all locations |
| ms-BN | Malay in Brunei Darussalam |
| ms-MY | Malay in Malaysia and Singapore |
| nb | Norwegian (Bokmal) in all locations |
| nn | Norwegian (Nynorsk) in all location |
| nl-BE | Dutch in Belgium (Flemish) |
| nl-NL | Dutch in the Netherlands, Surinam, and the Antilles |
| pl | Polish in all locations |
| pt-BR | Portuguese in Brazil |
| pt-PT | Portuguese in Portugal, and all other locations |
| rm-CH | Romansh in all locations |
| ro | Romanian in all locations |
| ru | Russian in all locations |
| rw-RW | Kinyarwanda in all locations |
| sk-SK | Slovak in all locations |
| sl-SL | Slovene in all locations |
| sq-AL | Albanian in all locations |
| sr | Serbian, in Cyrillic, in all locations |
| sr-Cyrl-BA | Serbian, in Cyrillic, in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| sr-Cyrl-ME | Serbian, in Cyrillic, in Montenegro |
| sr-Latn | Serbian, in Latin, in all locations |
| sr-Latn-BA | Serbian, in Latin, in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| sr-Latn-ME | Serbian, in Latin, in Montenegro |
| sv | Swedish in all locations |
| sw-KE | Swahili in all locations |
| tn-ZA | Setswana in all locations |
| tr-TR | Turkish in Turkey |
| xh-ZA | Xhosa in all locations |
| zh | Chinese in simplified script |
| zh-Hant | Chinese in traditional script |
| zu-ZA | Zulu in all locations |