my life at the moment
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Please tell me your job isn't to WRITE that! Regards, Jeff Varszegi
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You're not using that on my website, are you? :-D Marc Microsoft MVP, Visual C# MyXaml MyXaml Blog
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This only looks like a complicated SQL statement. If you look closely, you'll see it's a very simple SELECT operation from one table, with no joins, and without even any WHERE clauses. The presence of two very different character sets and the length itself of the query is long, and these make it seem complex. But I've written more complicated SQL in a tenth the space... I'm sure most of us have. :) - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) The Code Project - Orange makes the art grow fonder
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This only looks like a complicated SQL statement. If you look closely, you'll see it's a very simple SELECT operation from one table, with no joins, and without even any WHERE clauses. The presence of two very different character sets and the length itself of the query is long, and these make it seem complex. But I've written more complicated SQL in a tenth the space... I'm sure most of us have. :) - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) The Code Project - Orange makes the art grow fonder
This was called a joke. It was meant to be funny. :| Jeremy Falcon
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You're not using that on my website, are you? :-D Marc Microsoft MVP, Visual C# MyXaml MyXaml Blog
There goes the surprise. :) Jeremy Falcon
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Damn! Your graphics cards seems to be broken... or is it something I just drank??? Konichiwa! :) And if the paths that I have followed/have tread against the flow/there is no need for sorrow I am coming home Return, Crüxshadows
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Damn! Your graphics cards seems to be broken... or is it something I just drank??? Konichiwa! :) And if the paths that I have followed/have tread against the flow/there is no need for sorrow I am coming home Return, Crüxshadows
Stefan Pedersen wrote: Your graphics cards seems to be broken Nah, my computer stayed up late last night drinking too much silicon. :) Jeremy Falcon
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Please tell me your job isn't to WRITE that! Regards, Jeff Varszegi
Nope, just debugging it. Jeremy Falcon
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You really know how to hurt a guy. My life at the moment is occupied with getting my language translation tool working such that it satisfies the Japanese engineers where I work. This tool is used by translators to edit the .RC files for each language that our application will support. Over the last few days, I figured out the following items:
- My application (the one being translated) is compiled for UNICODE, which is supposed to make supporting Far Eastern languages simpler.
- The resource script is compiled into UNICODE text in the .EXE/.DLL.
- My translator program is also compiled for UNICODE, thereby making translation text handling easier. So far, so good.
- .RC files must be encoded as MBCS (multibyte character set, not UNICODE)
Screeeeeechh! Bang, bang, CRUNCH! (sound of wheel cover rolling off into distance) What brain-dead son of a chihuaha and a rhesus monkey thought that one up! I have to read the text from the .RC file as MBCS, translate the relevant bits to UNICODE, let the user edit them, and then translate them from UNICODE back to MBCS just so the stupid resource compiler can turn the text back into UNICODE. By the way, did I mention that if you set the code page for the .RC file to 1200 (UNICODE), the farking IDE (.NET 2003) will no longer load the file? Grrr.
Software Zen:
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You really know how to hurt a guy. My life at the moment is occupied with getting my language translation tool working such that it satisfies the Japanese engineers where I work. This tool is used by translators to edit the .RC files for each language that our application will support. Over the last few days, I figured out the following items:
- My application (the one being translated) is compiled for UNICODE, which is supposed to make supporting Far Eastern languages simpler.
- The resource script is compiled into UNICODE text in the .EXE/.DLL.
- My translator program is also compiled for UNICODE, thereby making translation text handling easier. So far, so good.
- .RC files must be encoded as MBCS (multibyte character set, not UNICODE)
Screeeeeechh! Bang, bang, CRUNCH! (sound of wheel cover rolling off into distance) What brain-dead son of a chihuaha and a rhesus monkey thought that one up! I have to read the text from the .RC file as MBCS, translate the relevant bits to UNICODE, let the user edit them, and then translate them from UNICODE back to MBCS just so the stupid resource compiler can turn the text back into UNICODE. By the way, did I mention that if you set the code page for the .RC file to 1200 (UNICODE), the farking IDE (.NET 2003) will no longer load the file? Grrr.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary R. Wheeler wrote: .RC files must be encoded as MBCS (multibyte character set, not UNICODE) :wtf: That's news to me. (Un)fortunately, this app is in VB, and as my luck would have it - most VB programs don't take advantage of resource scripts. We're pulling the translations from a SQL database (the app is used over a citrix server). Gary R. Wheeler wrote: By the way, did I mention that if you set the code page for the .RC file to 1200 (UNICODE), the farking IDE (.NET 2003) will no longer load the file? LOL! That's about all I can say. So far, we've been doing all the Japanese development on a Japanese version of Windows XP with minimal problems. Of course, we're also using VB6 too. (insert sigh here) Jeremy Falcon
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now i see why software jobs are outsourced to India rather than China.:laugh:
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
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This was called a joke. It was meant to be funny. :| Jeremy Falcon
I think the DBMS is powerful as it supports multilingual field name in the SQL script. I think some DBMS only support English. Sonork 100.41263:Anthony_Yio Life is about experiencing ...
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now i see why software jobs are outsourced to India rather than China.:laugh:
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Those are Kanji(Japanese) words by the way. Sonork 100.41263:Anthony_Yio Life is about experiencing ...
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Those are Kanji(Japanese) words by the way. Sonork 100.41263:Anthony_Yio Life is about experiencing ...
dont matter, all look the same to me. :-)
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
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This was called a joke. It was meant to be funny. :| Jeremy Falcon
Just goes to show. Humour is sometimes wasted on the geek. hehe :~
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This was called a joke. It was meant to be funny. :| Jeremy Falcon
It is scary... funny but scary. Give me a pivot cube set with multiple unions and joins over your one anyday, you poor bugger. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan quoted: "...that would require my explaining Einstein's Fear of Relatives" Crikey! ain't life grand? Einstein says...
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I sent that image around to the dev team as well as a new guy in London, I have honestly just had the following conversation on IM with him :-D (another co-worker is called Jeremy so when he saw the ~jeremy in the screenshot he thought he meant my co-worker, not you) Co-worker: whats that all about? Paul: I sent that to you Co-worker: ja and? Paul: Jeremy is learning Chinese. Microsoft is pushing for Chinese to be the preferred development language. Co-worker: what! Co-worker: really? Paul: Ask him. Co-worker: What the fuck are we going to do? None of us can speak Chinese, does this affect .NET? Paul: Konichiwa. I can speak some. Paul: Move with the times eh Co-worker: lol. Do we have to buy new software? Paul: No, Notepad supports it fine Co-worker: We use Notepad to dev!?!? Paul: :) relax... Paul: A friend sent me that SQL statement, he is working with a Chinese team and he had to debug that SQL statement. I just thought it was funny Co-worker: what a mission Paul: Indeed, but he gets free sake all day Co-worker: lol Thanks for the morning laugh Jeremy. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan quoted: "...that would require my explaining Einstein's Fear of Relatives" Crikey! ain't life grand? Einstein says...
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I sent that image around to the dev team as well as a new guy in London, I have honestly just had the following conversation on IM with him :-D (another co-worker is called Jeremy so when he saw the ~jeremy in the screenshot he thought he meant my co-worker, not you) Co-worker: whats that all about? Paul: I sent that to you Co-worker: ja and? Paul: Jeremy is learning Chinese. Microsoft is pushing for Chinese to be the preferred development language. Co-worker: what! Co-worker: really? Paul: Ask him. Co-worker: What the fuck are we going to do? None of us can speak Chinese, does this affect .NET? Paul: Konichiwa. I can speak some. Paul: Move with the times eh Co-worker: lol. Do we have to buy new software? Paul: No, Notepad supports it fine Co-worker: We use Notepad to dev!?!? Paul: :) relax... Paul: A friend sent me that SQL statement, he is working with a Chinese team and he had to debug that SQL statement. I just thought it was funny Co-worker: what a mission Paul: Indeed, but he gets free sake all day Co-worker: lol Thanks for the morning laugh Jeremy. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan quoted: "...that would require my explaining Einstein's Fear of Relatives" Crikey! ain't life grand? Einstein says...
Paul Watson wrote: Thanks for the morning laugh Jeremy. Ditto, it's Wed. morning over here and I just read your post and laughed. :) Jeremy Falcon
