>hi all
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>currently i am working on telephone directory. project is about quiering on telphone nos., surname, initials etc. now the tables are in english but what the clients wants that result of the quires should be in reginal Language (i.e ARABIC) is there any way for this solution. there is one application which converts english into ARABIC.this software converts english into arabic. now i have to call this application while quireing. and the result of this quier will contvert the english into arabic.
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>how to call foreign aplication?
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>hope u will have understood my question.
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>e.g. will be helpfull to me a lot.
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>thanks
>mohammed
>mohemmed@hotmail.com

Mohammed,
How an external app might be called depends on its capabilities like supporting OLE or not.
OTOH as Zaheer said I don't expect any application to convert names to another language correctly.
Cetin