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Urgent! Display Greek and Russian characters

Hi,

I have a VB application that I would like to modify to be able to display on my forms some Greek and Russian text that is stored in an MS Access 2000 database. The application currently only displays ANSI English text, and runs on Windows 2000 and XP.

Can someone tell me what I would have to do to make my application multi-language compatible? What issues are involved?

Thanks,

tsturgeon

supermidget

if you set the font to Times New Roman, can't you see greek & russian text then?

twalgrave

Here's a good place to start

http://www.i18ngurus.com/docs/985072550.html

rajevicky

I use VB Resource Editor AddIn for taking care of similar situations. Alternatively u can use different ini files for different languages. But as u have multilanguage text stored in ur database, u don't require ini files...
Regards,
VR

rajevicky

tsturgeon, you'd like to have a look at following link described by M$-
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q232625
Regards,
VR

Todd Sturgeon

ASKER

Thank you for the comments so far. I am still reading them.

I have a Access table that supposedly has Greek phrases in it.

Here is a sample record:

Ðåñéå÷åé ìïëõâäï. Íá ìç ÷ñçóéìïðïéåéôáé óå åðéöáíåéåò ðïõ ôá ðáéäéá åéíáé äõíáôï íá ìáóçóïõí ç íá ðéðéëéóïõí.

Now, this does not look like regular Greek. Is this Unicode?

How would I convert this to display in Greek correctly in a VB textbox control?

Thanks,

tsturgeon

rajevicky

you'd like to have a look at this link..
http://www.whippleware.com/VBLM/webhelp/vblm.htm#vblm/vb__vblm___unicode.htm
Regards,
VR

Todd Sturgeon

ASKER

Hi rajevicky,

I read most of the article. It is useful background info, but does not directly answer my question above.

What I need is a method to display the db info without using WhippleWare's product.

VBLM does not seem to do what I need it to do. Specifically, it seems aimed at making localized versions of applications. I want to keep this program I am building such that it runs on English computer, but is able to display Greek text.

tsturgeon

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Todd Sturgeon

ASKER

Hi twalgrave

Thanks for the link. I found some nice background info, but still have the problem of how to display my db info in a vb control.

tsturgeon

Todd Sturgeon

ASKER

Hi VR,

This works great!!! Excellent!!! Thanks!

I am able to display Greek text in a textbox, although I haven't played with other controls.

If have have some other small questions about this code, and post them here later on, will you take a look?

tsturgeon

rajevicky

sure... Anytime tsturgeon...
Thanx a lot the points...
Regards,
VR