[AccessD] Chinese Language

Dear List:

OK.  I'm making some progress.  I changed the font on one of the labels to
Unicode MS copied the Chinese characters from the Excel spreadsheet to the
Caption in the property sheet for the control, and viola! it displays
Chinese!  When I look in my Access Language table, however, I still have
little boxes.  The caption also shows as little boxes in the property sheet
of the control.

I haven't written the public function yet to take the Chinese from the table
and put it into the caption (the function will also, I guess, have to change
the font to Arial Unicode MS), but I'm concerned that it may show boxes.

Maybe I should stop bothering you all and see how far I can get on this by
myself.

But I have to tell you it's very exciting.  In the old DOS days I did a
Chinese language version of this product with this woman in Taiwan and I
remember the thrill the first time my Main Menu came up in Chinese.

Still, if anybody has any advice for me, it's appreciated.

Regards,

Rocky Smolin
Beach Access Software
http://www.e-z-mrp.com



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software" <bchacc at san.rr.com>
To: <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 6:45 AM
Subject: [AccessD] Chinese Language


Dear List:

I am trying to create a Chinese language version of my product with the help
of a contact in Taiwan.

As an initial test she translated the captions on the Main Menu.  I created
a front-end language file table to hold the two forms of Chinese (simple and
complex) and can add fields as I add languages.

I sent her the table but she sent back an excel file of the table with the
translations.  When I open the Excel file the Chinese characters display
correctly (of course, how would I know?).

But when I copy one of these strings from the Excel cell into the language
table in Access it shows as squares - undisplayable character, I assume.  So
Excel displays the Chinese but not my Access.

I'm stating down the Access Help route but if anyone knows how to get Access
to display foreign characters can you give me a lead?

MTIA

Rocky Smolin
Beach Access Software
http://www.e-z-mrp.com

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