>>I need to port a fairly large app to japanese. The whole thing is designed to use variable screen prompts, menus and so on, and works like a charm in english, german, you name it, BUT... not in japanese.
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>>I have attempted the following:
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>>1. Mapped MS Sans Serif=Some Japanese TT font in the win.ini [Font Substitution] section.
>>It turned out to be a 90% success. FPW 2.6 will write Kanji and all the other the other character sets and accept input.
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>>It will, alas, also mess up the nicely designed screens, making them abut three times as wide, as originally designed. I figure this all has something to do with the japanes font I am using, and have tried various combinations, all with the same result.
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>>It also works the opposite way: if the screens are adjusted to fit the japanese char set, the darned things will shrink to about a third of the size, with overlapping fields, buttons and such.
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>>I am talking about an app with 57 screens and LOTS of code, and the thought of having to maintain it in two identical versions makes my skin (and my clients ditto) crawl. My bank manager is smiling, though.
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>>Seriously: I´m at my wits end, and would appreciate any and all suggestions.
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>>Thanks
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>>Pete
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>Check the font readme or any other docs what resolution or other tricks
>were intended to be in place by the font manufacturer. Some fonts,
>especially TT's, will be adequatly displayed only in 640x480, etc.

Yup !
As Confutse says: Programmer worth weight in gold probably cost as much.
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I can´t leave it alone, so I guess I just have to keep digging. Not being able to read Japanese does not help either.

Pete