[DUG] Application - Language translation

[Richard Vowles]

Rohit Gupta wrote:
> What is involved in converting an App for a chinese like language ?  
> It is easy enough to get all the strings into a resource file (with a 
> bit of elbow grease).  What about the characters themselves ?  Do I 
> need to worry about things like unicode anywhere ?

According to Gordon Li (Product Evangelist, Greater China, CodeGear - I 
asked him for you) - you need to use GB2312 or BIG5 encoding for 
Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese, but this will only cover 
13000 characters and to be reasonably expressive, you need 60,000 - 
hence the need for Unicode. The encoding is set in the Font property.

Richard

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