Western characters on Chinese Windows
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I'm getting complaints from an Asian customer that our software isn't working with his Chinese version of windows. My guess is it's missing the character set. Has anyone ever had similar problems? Is there some kind of package you can download from the MS site to make this work?
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I'm getting complaints from an Asian customer that our software isn't working with his Chinese version of windows. My guess is it's missing the character set. Has anyone ever had similar problems? Is there some kind of package you can download from the MS site to make this work?
Standards are great! Everybody should have one!
Are you using Unicode characters (in your application)?
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
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I'm getting complaints from an Asian customer that our software isn't working with his Chinese version of windows. My guess is it's missing the character set. Has anyone ever had similar problems? Is there some kind of package you can download from the MS site to make this work?
Standards are great! Everybody should have one!
Always use Unicode!
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Are you using Unicode characters (in your application)?
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
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Always use Unicode!
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Euhm. Yes. I have a feeling this is gonna be bad... :(
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:laugh: No. That's it. It should work then. If for instance the application was not written with Unicode characters there is an option in the Control Panel of the Chinese windows XP in the Regional Settings -> Advanced tab to select a language for the display of non-Unicode characters. If you set English there it will work. If you do support Unicode it should run. Don't you have more details in regards to what exactly fails?
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
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:laugh: No. That's it. It should work then. If for instance the application was not written with Unicode characters there is an option in the Control Panel of the Chinese windows XP in the Regional Settings -> Advanced tab to select a language for the display of non-Unicode characters. If you set English there it will work. If you do support Unicode it should run. Don't you have more details in regards to what exactly fails?
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
Well, I'm not that sure it doesn't have any non-Unicode characters in it, the program's quite large and when I started working on it I was only a novice developer. I'm gonna try and send them your solution, who knows what might come out of it. They say the problems they're having are actually with the communications driver (old fashioned rs232), so it's a bit far fetched. But since China is quite far from here and I don't anything else to work with than "it works with my english windows version, but not the chinese", I'm gonna try this anyway. Thanks!
Standards are great! Everybody should have one!
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Well, I'm not that sure it doesn't have any non-Unicode characters in it, the program's quite large and when I started working on it I was only a novice developer. I'm gonna try and send them your solution, who knows what might come out of it. They say the problems they're having are actually with the communications driver (old fashioned rs232), so it's a bit far fetched. But since China is quite far from here and I don't anything else to work with than "it works with my english windows version, but not the chinese", I'm gonna try this anyway. Thanks!
Standards are great! Everybody should have one!
You could also install a Chinese Windwows XP in a virtual machine and try it for yourself. We used to do that at a company I worked. If you/comapany have a MSDN subscription you can download a Chinese version of XP.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
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You could also install a Chinese Windwows XP in a virtual machine and try it for yourself. We used to do that at a company I worked. If you/comapany have a MSDN subscription you can download a Chinese version of XP.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
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That's something that should of been done before him deployed the application :wtf:
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Well yes, maybe we should have. But we're only a small company with one person developing the software (that would be me). The product was originally intended for the Western-European countries and America, but turns out to be more of success than I had thought possible. The thought of it shipping to China never really crossed my mind...
Standards are great! Everybody should have one!
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Well yes, maybe we should have. But we're only a small company with one person developing the software (that would be me). The product was originally intended for the Western-European countries and America, but turns out to be more of success than I had thought possible. The thought of it shipping to China never really crossed my mind...
Standards are great! Everybody should have one!
I was in a similar situation a few years back. You're in for a world of learning if you want to do it right. We got to that point where it works anywhere but along the way I learned a *lot* about what not to do. Even after all that you can run into some quirks from time to time, like we did a couple of years ago with certain combinations of two adjacent letters in certain countries being automatically converted into a single local letter on MS sql server which plays havoc with queries etc. You can take a quick stab at it but if you really didn't plan for internationalization and globalization in advance you might end up finding it easier to just not sell it outside the english writing world and next major update plan on a big rewrite after a *lot* of study and testing. If it's a .net app then the good news is it's about a billion times easier to code for than it is for unmanaged code but far from automatic.
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"Always" meaning "never"? Is there a cure for this that doesn't involve me rewriting half the program?
Standards are great! Everybody should have one!
Just do it. It will save you much headaches in the long run. Don't let the problems accumulate.
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