Subject: Re: delphi for asian langauge
Well, this should make you happy: I run English Delphi on Japanese
Win95, and it has no problems with Japanese. Of course, you would have
to translate all your strings, but all the text entry controls (TEdit,
TMemo, TRichEdit, etc.) have an option to set the IME type in the Object
Inspector. Users can input Japanese text just like in any other
application.
Everything works as you would expect: you can type Japanese text in the
IDE editor; system buttons (OK, Cancel) are in Japanese; the default
font is the Japanese system font. . .
As long as you are developing on a Japanese OS, you can make completely
localized Japanese applications. I assume that the same is true for
Chinese.
Let me know if you have any specific questions.
Graham Stratford
chuck wrote:
>
> We need to internationalize our American program for Japanese and Chinese.
> A two day search has come up with very little on multibyte char support in
> delphi. It apears borland has a $3500.00 package for conversion to other
> ascii based languages, but nothing to multibyte. We need to provide win95
> support, so unicode doesnt seem to be an option. Are there any tools out
> there? is it possible? should just convert to c++ first? any reasonable
> suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Chuck
I have seen information about it on the Microsoft Developer Network CD's.
These contain articles on how the internationalized Windows 95 for the
asian markets. Maybe you'll find help there.