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   Hi Andrue !
thanks for help.

well actually, my locale is not configured for cyrillic.
it's configured for English (United States),
I'm using w2k, and in Regional Settings/Advanced tab, I have added all
spanish and
eastern europe language supports, even latin1 latin 2,
so it's a bit different I guess...
any ideas?


"Andrue Cope [TeamB]" <no.spam@not.a.valid.address> wrote in message
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> George wrote:
>
> > Hi, sorry for such a vague question.
> >
> > ok, well, basically I want to be able to write spanish in my app.
> > TMemo, TEdit or whatever
> > control it will be.
>
> Your email address has a .ru extension so I'm assuming you're
> configured to use the Cyrillic codepage. If that is the case then your
> machine probably doesn't have the Spanish characters available to it.
>
> The problem is that the VCL (and most Windows applications come to
> that) still use 8-bit characters in strings. 8-bits only gives 256
> characters and that is nowhere near enough to support all the World's
> languages.
>
> The solution is something called a codepage. Basically this is a subset
> of characters tailored to a particular language. In effect it's the 256
> characters that you as a cyrillic user need. It includes several
> characters that I as an Briton don't need but more importantly it may
> not include some of the accented Roman alphabet letters than Spanish
> needs.
>
> You could try changing your locale (Control panel\Regional settings) to
> Spain after ensuring that 'Western European' is enabled in the list of
> input languages.
>
> This 'problem' is not really a problem at all. You can translate your
> application on a machine set up for Spain and then release. Obviously
> anyone wanting to see the Spanish version will have their machine
> configured appropriately and all will be well.
>
> If for some reason you need to be able to display text in any language
> on any machine you need to look at using Unicode. Unfortunately the VCL
> doesn't support this.
>
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> Andrue Cope [TeamB]
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