How to get Spanish to work in my computer?

Colloquial Collision — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:51:31 -0800

I would like to add a Spanish keyboard (language interface pack?) to Windows XP in order to make typing Spanish more efficient. Unfortunately when I go to choose a Spanish keyboard, 20 Spanish dialects are presented. These choices can be found in the Input language form in the Add Input Language window.

The options range from Argentinean Spanish to Venezuelan Spanish, along with two non-dialectic options, International Sort and Traditional Sort.

This is exactly where I went in Windows XP to find this form:
Control Panel > Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options > Add other languages > Regional and Language Options / Languages Tab > Details Button > Text Services and Input Languages / Settings Tab > Add Button > Add Input Language > Input Language Form

Should I choose International Sort or Traditional Sort? What is the difference between these two options?

I currently use a United States Dvorak layout for typing. Typing in English. Is there a Spanish equivalent?

Or am I going about this the wrong way? Is there an easier way to insert vowels with accents or umlauts, and Ns with tildes without resorting to typing unicode? (Or opening up separate programs like character map and inserting one character at a time, for example.)

Thank you o muchas gracias.

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