[AccessD] An International Consideration

Andy,
it's the same with German/English Access. I remember stumbling into this 
when I first time used my German version for a US project about 10 years 
ago. was very mad on this.
But the Do until .Dernier is new to me, and I think pretty crazy.

Lembit

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Lacey" <andy at minstersystems.co.uk>
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Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] An International Consideration


> To add to this unilateral discussion.
>
> My French colleague tells me he could have used [Forms] rather than
> [Formulaires] - the French version will accept French or English whereas 
> the
> English version only "speaks" English (how typical is that!). So the moral
> is that if you're coding in another language and want your software to be
> usable elsewhere use the English keywords (ok that's not so surprising).
>
> But what I do find surprising is that my assumption that VB was all 
> English
> is wrong. The statement
>
> Do Until .EOF
> can be written in Franglais in the French version as
> Do Until .Dernier
>
> and, what's more, my English Access understands it!! Sacre bleu.
>
> --
> Andy Lacey
> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
>
>
>
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> Subject: [AccessD] An International Consideration
> Date: 10/04/08 08:34
>
>
> Hi everyone
>
> Here's a funny thing that's arisen because of running an Access system
> written in French on an English version of Access. I thought those of you
> involved in systems around the globe might be interested in this.
>
> I found that when I open a form whose data is based upon a selection made 
> on
> the previous form Access pops up the parameter entry dialog and asks me to
> enter the value which it ought to be just reading from the earlier form. 
> So
> say I'm in form A. There's a prompt for a week number and then a button to
> open the production plan for that week. In France, where the system was
> written, that week's plan would appear. Here in the UK Access pops up a
> dialog asking for the week number and only when I enter it there does the
> plan appear. This behaviour occurs all over the systems. What it is, I'm
> sure, is that the recordsource for the planning screen is:
>
> SELECT *
> FROM [Pr?paration planning]
> WHERE [Pr?paration planning].Semaine=[Formulaires]![Semaine
> planning]![Semaine]
>
> If you look at the WHERE statement the keyword Formulaires is not being
> recognised in English Access (it would be Forms here of course) so
> [Formulaires]![Semaine planning]![Semaine] is being treated as an unknown
> parameter and Access asks for user input.
>
> Interesting eh? Of course what I could do is get hold of a French version 
> of
> Access but I'd need to install that on another machine as it would be sure
> to get in the way of the English version. A case for Virtual PC, I know.
> Anyway this post is not about solving this (unless someone has a great 
> idea
> of course), more about pointing out yet another potential pratfall when 
> you
> cross national/language borders. I'd be interested to know if Access 
> handles
> the reverse ok, ie if [Forms] is used would that be ok in the French
> version?
>
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> Andy Lacey
> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
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