How to display Hindi text in application

gr8tushar

Hii i would like to know how to display Hindi or Chinese messages in my application. i would also like to know how to display Menu items in some other language.

Mazdak

You must install characters in your development andd end user machine. Mazy You're face to face, With the man who sold the world - David Bowie

Anonymous

Can u pls give me an example. i mean when i write the code in the coding window it's always in english.

Mazdak

Anonymous wrote: Can u pls give me an example. i mean when i write the code in the coding window it's always in english. Have you install those language i your machine? If yes, then simply choose the language from taskbar when you are in coding window. How do you type them in MS Word? And after that you have to SAVE AS it as Unicode Encoding, UTF-8 . Mazy You're face to face, With the man who sold the world - David Bowie

Heath Stewart

First, as Mazdak said, you have to have the fonts (not characters) installed on your system. Many of the OpenType fonts like Arial, Verdana, and Times already have the full Unicode character set supported (at least at the time of their release). You can further write your applications in your native language (known as the neutral language - the resources that are compiled into your primary assembly) and have other languages - not just text but layouts and other settings as well - in satellite assemblies. In you look in the .NET Framework SDK documentation, there's an entire section didicated to localizing applications, including some examples (though most of this can be done in the VS.NET designer if you like that sort of thing - just see the Localized and Language properties of the Form that's open in the designer). See Developing World-ready Applications[^] in the .NET Framework SDK for more information, especially the section, Resources in Applications[^].

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