Don't know how familiar you are with the Thai language but you will need a unicode pageframe as you are dealing with a sanskrit based character set, if you want to store data in sqlserver, for example, I believe you will need to use nchar, nvarchar and ntext. The accent marks might make the captions and textboxes require more room in their height.
Craig's advice to use INTL is spot on and will go a long way toward resolving some of the knottier problems.
Sounds like an interesting project.
>Looking to convert an application from English to Thai. I'm using VFP 6.0.
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>I have labels, pagetabs, grid column headers, form captions and so on that need to be in Thai. Questions are:
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>1. Can it be done with VFP 6.0 or are there issues?
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>2. Is it simply a substitution of characters for the Thai equivalent when setting object.caption to something? (i.e. "Sales" in the English version might be "#@(*(@*" for the Thai characters in Windows XP with Thai language installed)
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>3. Any pitfalls to watch out for?
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>I'm not worried about the time or cost, it has to be done. I just want to know the scope of the task. Thanks in advance.
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>dG
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