>A cient asks whether it is possible to translate an application into chinese.
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>I already made the application multilanguage by supporting for english, dutch, french, spanish and portugese. But the latest request is adding chinese, which of course uses a total different character set which is double byte.
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>Can anyone point me in the right direction to adjust the application to translate into chinese ?
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>TIA
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Walter,

You have to translate all the labels and messages that your app prompts to users into Chinese.

Be aware that there are two major kinds of encoding for Chinese: Simplified and traditional.

Simplified is used primarily in People's Republic of China while tranditional is the main stream in Taiwan, Hongkong and some other South East Asia countries such as Singapore, the Philippines and so on. If you want both, your app should treat them as separate languages.

In additional to this, you need to distribute the VFP resource files:

vfp?rchs.dll

for Simpilified Chinese.

vfp?rcht.dll

for Tranditional Chinese.

Where ? stands for the VFP version number.

HTH