Susan Harkins
harkinsss at bellsouth.net
Sun Feb 5 09:38:02 CST 2006
How do you tell the forms, controls, etc. which language to use? Are there many routines, or just one? Susan H. Doris: At form or report load time I call one of several translate routines which go to the tables, find the control in questions and replace the caption or whatever with the field from the record is specified by the user's language preference. To do Asian languages I had only to load the Eastern Asian Language support in Windows and, walla!, up it came in Chinese. (Of course I have no earthly idea what it says, I have to trust the translator.) The translate routine did need to accommodate Unicode, because I guess that's what Chinese characters are stored in. I think it's a double word for each character.