Hi Eric,

sabai dee reu?

Thanks for the reply. The application needs to show only the Language that the User Logs On as. E.g. if the user has been set up in the back end to enter Data in Thai they will only see Thai, no translation is to occur ( At least not for the time being ). The operating System from the Web side of things probably shouldn't matter because users in Thailand will be using the Thai version of Windows, the Chinese will be using a Chinese version of Windows, the Koreans will be using a Korean version of Windows, Etc. Ideally I'd like the databases to store the different languages simultaneously. I don't want one set of databases for China, one for Thailand, one for Korea, Etc.

kop koon,
Gavin...


>I don't think a table will support more than one code page but you can change the code page of a table. (see cpzero in tools) However, what you want to do is more complicated than just changing the code page of a table. A few things to consider would be:
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>1. How and where/when is data entered. The table and operating system need to support the character set when it is entered as well as when it is viewed/modified later.
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>2. Character support does not mean "language support". In other words, what you type in Thai cannot be viewed in Chinese and what you type in English will not show up in Thai etc.
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>So the next question would be how is this data being translated if at all. Or is the program designed so that only data entered in chinese is available to a chinese speaking person.
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>You may want to start looking at the possibility of having separate backend support for each language and forcing the user to choose up front and use a path to the appropriate data source.
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>Since your doing this with a web front end you could concievably pull data from different sources and combine them into a web based report. But basically your gonna be limited to English/Chinese English/Thai English/Japanese etc.
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>My work with Thai was strictly desktop apps which was not too bad since there was only one language besides english to deal with.
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>HTH