Exotic languages

[DragonSteve]

Hello,
does someone know what I have to do if I want to deploy applications
in some kind of exotic language (ex. chinese,japanese)
I've already tryed with my regional setting changed in chinese but
in de vstudio environment my forms do not appear in chinese.
Do I need a vstudio version for these specific languages?

Thanks.

[Buzby]

If you think VB is going to translate your labels and captions for you you're mistaken. What you need to do is write various resource (.RES) files, one for each language, with every label, caption, prompt etc in it - then instead of displaying a fixed label on a form, you retrieve the appropriate label from the .RES file.
Simply change the .RES file in the project and recompile to make a different language version.

[fallnwrld]

That would be a pain, and time consuming. There must be a japanese version out there? I find it hard to believe that programmers must learn English if they wish to program in VB, and then if software is for somewhere in Japan they have to convert all those lables and add images instead of font. That would turn anybody away.

[DragonSteve]

Thanks for replying.

Buzby, I do not work with resource files. Every word in my
application are multilanguage and are coming out of the database. These word's are managed by an other application.
So no res files.

fallnwrld, I also think that I need a different version of visual studio(other language). I will look for it at the microsoft site.
But if someone else knows an other sollution, reply.

THANKS.

[senthilvelm]

hi dragon steve..
am now in need of doing a vb appln in thai language ....
Have yu done this in yur vb appln ?
can yu get back on how to do this ?
,,,,
senthil

[dongaman]

VB enterprise edition has VB resource editor tool,than let you change the .res file.
To get more clue,you can search in MSDN

[senthilvelm]

without using the res file , how can i do it?
i msut also store and retrieve the data in thai langauga only.

[dongaman]

Using .RES files is a good choice when deploy multilanguage app.
Otherwise,there is a bad choice that you need use api to get the target machine launguage system and diaplay the proper words.

[amitabh]

In case you need some extra help, try looking at this site www.i18nwithvb.com.