I have a program that's in english. Everything needs to stay in english. A few of my users have secondary language packs such as chinese installed. When they run my program and the program populates textboxes with data saved in a config file, it's all garbled. When they turn off that language option, the text looks fine...

I need all users to run one version that works by displaying the english characters whether or not they have a secondary language pack.

I ran across a message thread here that mentioned this for writing and writing:
VB Code:
  1. Private Sub Command1_Click()
  2.     Dim barTemp() As Byte
  3.     barTemp = Text1.Text
  4.     Open "unicode.txt" For Binary As #1
  5.         Put #1, , barTemp
  6.     Close #1
  7. End Sub
  8.  
  9. Private Sub Command2_Click()
  10.     Dim barTemp() As Byte
  11.     ReDim barTemp(FileLen("unicode.txt") - 1)
  12.     Open "unicode.txt" For Binary As #1
  13.         Get #1, , barTemp
  14.     Close #1
  15.     Text1.Text = barTemp
  16. End Sub

Is this what I want? I've found tons of making VB6 work for many languages but nothing for "make it only work for one language."

Thanks