[AccessD] Translation data length (cache used)

I don't have that font installed and don't want to install it.  I am seeing Chinese characters in 
your table though.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software wrote:
> The Chinese is double word length per character I think.  Did you account
> for that?
> 
> Also, I haven't tested your app with Chinese yet.  Does it display OK?  You
> have to have the East Asian language package implemented in Windows.
> 
> 
> Rocky Smolin
> Beach Access Software
> 858-259-4334
> www.e-z-mrp.com
> www.bchacc.com
>  
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 9:28 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: [AccessD] Translation data length (cache used)
> 
> Using the following function I calculated the lengths of all of the
> translation strings in every translation field:
> 
> Function mTotalDataLength()
> Dim db As DAO.Database
> Dim rst As DAO.Recordset
> Dim lngDataLength As Long
> Dim intFld As Integer
>      Set db = CurrentDb
>      Set rst = db.OpenRecordset("tblLanguage-Controls")
>      With rst
>          For intFld = 4 To 8
>              .MoveFirst
>              While Not .EOF
>                  If Not (IsNull(rst(intFld).Value)) Then
>                      lngDataLength = lngDataLength + Len(rst(intFld).Value)
>                  End If
>                  .MoveNext
>              Wend
>              Debug.Print intFld & ":" & lngDataLength
>          Next intFld
>      End With
> End Function
> 
> mTotalDataLength
> 4:43879
> 5:56558
> 6:69133
> 7:107050
> 8:140369
> 
> Spanish and French are by far the most verbose.  In any event, if you are
> caching the data for every single form for a single language, the total data
> cached is about 140K.
> 
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