[AccessD] Chinese Language

Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software bchacc at san.rr.com
Fri Apr 30 09:37:17 CDT 2004


William:

Which SP did you have to get to fix the problem?

At the moment I'm just working with captions and labels.  But when they
start putting in data and I'm operating onthe data, they might run into the
problem.


Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Hindman" <wdhindman at bellsouth.net>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Chinese Language


> ...besides the font, you might want to check your Jet SPs ...earlier
> versions of Jet4 had a number of problems with DBCS languages ...I needed
to
> use a Thai set on an mdb and even though the correct font was installed I
> got a lot of extended characters instead and queries on that data would
not
> work either ...a Jet update cured the problem.
>
> William Hindman
> "The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures." John Dos Passos
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Gajewski" <rbgajewski at adelphia.net>
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 9:52 AM
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Chinese Language
>
>
> > Rocky
> >
> > Odds are real strong that you simply don't have the font installed that
> she
> > used.
> >
> > Bob Gajewski
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin -
> > Beach Access Software
> > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 09:46
> > To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
> > 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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