Re: localization problem

From: Catherine Rees Lay (spamtrap_at_polyhedron.org.uk)
Date: 04/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:20:41 +0100

In article <40865541$1@news.mdh.se>, Jens Björnhager <jensbj@home.se>
writes
>> It wasn't in Delphi, but was similar - I needed to display Cyrillic
>> characters in Windows edit controls and buttons. The answer was to go
>> to Regional Options, check Cyrillic and then click Default (I'm on
>> Windows 2000 but there are similar options on other versions of
>> Windows). This displays the Cyrillic characters correctly, but still
>> leaves me running in the English version of Windows which is just as
>> well as my Russian isn't up to working in Russian Windows!
>
>That just changes your codepage conversion table settings, to be able to
>viev/enter international characters you need components with unicode
>support.
>
>Even with those I cannot get such things to work ;-(
>
>I hope someone else will shed some light upon Delphi + Unicode.
>
>/Jens
>
>
Aha - I hadn't realised you need Unicode. That I don't have experience
with, in or out of Delphi.

But there are lots and lots of "international characters" which don't
need Unicode, just the correct codepage settings. For instance in my
Cyrillic example, the Cyrillic characters don't replace the Western ones
but are elsewhere in the ASCII codes, so I can still see both. I can't
type the Cyrillic direct on my Western keyboard, but my Russian
translator can on her Cyrillic one, and we both see the same Western and
Cyrrilic characters on the screen. Equally if I wanted Greek + Western
characters there's a codepage for that too. But if I needed all 3 at
once, there isn't. So do check that you really need Unicode, and not
just a particular codepage.

I was surprised when I first started my project how little documentation
there is on the subject (at least I guess there may be loads of Chinese
or Russian articles on writing multi-alphabet applications, but none
that I can read, sadly).

Catherine. 

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