[AccessD] Chinese Language

William Hindman wdhindman at bellsouth.net
Fri Apr 30 11:23:48 CDT 2004


...I'd think that data sorts could be a problem ...it is with Thai ...you'll
want your translator to test that pretty thoroughly.
...the other thing I ran into was a number of burps when the user had a full
Thai version of Access installed rather than my runtime.

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 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Chinese Language


> Yeah it's A2K and it's working beautiful right now.  But that's just label
> and command button caption.  We'll see once they put in some data.
>
> 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 8:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Chinese Language
>
>
> > ...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
> > > > >
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