William Hindman
wdhindman at bellsouth.net
Fri Apr 30 10:44:54 CDT 2004
...was a while back Rocky ...well before 8 so if you (and your client) have the latest you should be ok ...I'm assuming that you're using A2K or AXP in a W2K or WXP environment. William Hindman "The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures." John Dos Passos ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software" <bchacc at san.rr.com> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 10:37 AM Subject: Re: [AccessD] Chinese Language > 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 > > > > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > > > AccessD mailing list > > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > > > AccessD mailing list > > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > AccessD mailing list > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com