I am writing a .net version 3.5 in VB program here in the UK and it is to be used in China.
I am using a local copy of SQL server, however there it will be a china version. All the input will be in English, so i guess the computer will require the English language to be installed, but are there any other issues i should know about, from using the program in China?
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Hi,
I would recommend that you get a spare PC and change the local settings on that. It sometimes is worth downloading the full language packs etc from Microsoft to change your OS installation to match that of the chinese version. This should give you a good enough idea of any obvious errors that may occur due to slight differences.
Be aware that installations change depending on language / regional settings so do not hard code in paths into your program, instead read the locations from the filesystem/registry etc. You will be amazed how many people this trips up. I also try to set the case of file names etc when looking for them as should they decide on using a linux filestore server then then case becomes important.
Best of luck as coding for cross platform\OS use is one of the great challenges, but luckily these days it is getting easier.
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by: wobbledPosted on 2009-02-18 at 06:23:40ID: 23670488
Yes, areas to be concerned about are locals regarding decimals. If a user where to enter the value 100,000 within the English local setting we use the comma as a figure separator, this can change to a ; or . in other countries.
Also file paths are different on many Far East systems. There they use the Yen symbol rather than a slash
Eg C:¥program files¥my program rather than C:\Program Files\my program
The only true way to be sure is to install your program on the chinese system and test it, almost all the work I do is tested to run on various different language builds and over the years the only way I have found to be sure is to do this directly on a PC on that network. You can create a version of that PC where you are and test, but other factors do come into play.