Hi, I would greatly appreciate any help with the following problem. I am using Windows 2000 Pro and want to display Arabic text in an MDI window. I have set all the regional options to be Arabic(Saudi Arabia) including my default system locale. I can enter Arabic text in an edit box on a prope...more >>

Hi, I have an ASP.NET 1.1 application that uses resources stored in .resx files. The default file strings.resx contains the English version, file strings.cs-cz.resx contains the Czech version. On the local machine (Windows XP), everything works fine - the application displays the specifi...more >>

I have a need to get the decimal character. This obviously depends on the regional settings of the user. I know if I have the language & the region, then I can use the CultureInfo class... but how do I get the language & region characters to CultureInfo("de-DE") ? John ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to read a resource-only DLL (Win32, Unicode) from a C# test program. I am using platform invoke to do this as shown below. The code compiles, but it cannot show any string resources when there are many string resources. If you see any obvious reasons, could you let me know?...more >>

Hi I am building a Win forms application which Serializes certain Numberic values. I am using XmlSerialization to achieve this. Currently lets say using the US culture I serialized a numeric value such as 100.34 - This would be serialized as 100.34. Now within the same region - US , if...more >>

Hi, We have an application that will be distributed worldwide. A lot of users hasn't an Internet access and therefore we will provide the .NET framework on the CD which we deliver to the customers. But how should we do that - is it the redistributable framework we should download and copy to t...more >>

Hello=2E I'm working on an application in VB=2ENet using Visual= Studio =2ENet 2003=2E Since our application has to be in Engligh and= in French (depending upon user selection), we're using the= ResourceManager class to reference the localization =2Eresx files=2E= Here's the problem: Chan...more >>

(Type your message here) -------------------------------- From: Smitha Ghatke hi I am working on c# web forms which supports multi langauage= support=2E i am having an application which contains 2 labels and= 2textboxes=2E I am to change the text only one textbox to japanese= or accept...more >>

Hi, I'm facing a little problem with an ASP.Net DataList Template. Inside this Template I put an asp:linkButton control and set it's text to "Click me". When I tryed to get the value from a Resource with a ResourceManager object and write it to the control's text property inside the Template I...more >>

Marin Thanks for your response. Yes I use Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture() to set this. I followed an example of custom cultures on the net written by Jason Salas, but his example doesn't use satellite assemblies and uses ResourceManager.CreateFile...more >>

I've generally had a fairly miserable time using winres for localizing forms. It seems to be very buggy - loses bitmaps, doesn't display things correctly, is generally miserably with inherited forms etc. etc. Do most people actually use winres for localizing forms and if so how are they dealin...more >>

Hi, I am very new to international programming and have a basic question. I created a Japanese Hello program using VC7.1. All it does it to output Hello in Japanese. The code below, however, outputs garbage characters. I saved the C++ file as Unicode, but it appears that it does not make a...more >>

Hi, I'm fairly new to the .NET internationalization mechanism. I'm trying to understand what's different about the following and when I need to use 1 vs the other. If I retrieve: Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture as opposed to Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture I wrote a simple t...more >>

What are the standard naming conventions for string IDs used with ResourceManager.GetString()? Are there any significant disadvantages to making the names long? Do you typically identify the class or namespace from which they are referenced? Thanks again for your help. Tom Clement App...more >>

Hi everyone, and thank you in advance for sharing your insights on my questions. I have an application with many assemblies that contain strings that need to be localizable. My question is: where do I put the resources containing the strings? When I was a youngster back in the olden day...more >>

I followed this example to create some custom cultures (en-NZ-HMC, fr-FR-HMC) which are subsets of parent cultures en-NZ, fr-FR, from which they are inherited in order to mirror the date/time and currency formats. A configuration setting is used to determine which culture is used to display the...more >>

I followed this example to create some custom cultures (en-NZ-HMC, fr-FR-HMC) which are subsets of parent cultures en-NZ, fr-FR, from which they are inherited in order to mirror the date/time and currency formats. A configuration setting is used to determine which culture is used to display the...more >>

Dear all, I can't find the exact information on MSDN Help, so I hope you can help me out: in some languages the aa equals å or AE equals Æ. So I was wandering if the construction str1 = str2 does a culture sensitive comparison ? In other words: to have a globalized application must I rewrit...more >>

Dear all, I have written a simple localized application in ASP.NET. In my global.asax I initialize CurrentUICulture with the culture found in Request.UserLanguages(0). On my test system, the culture is en-US, so my application switches to en (fallback process) for which I have created a res...more >>

Hi NG, I´ve wrote a really big application in vb6 and now, i´ve to implement a multilanguage function in it. I´ve searched with google for a tool, which i could use to do the localization without having so much work. I now the resource-file.... ...but isnt there nothing else ? It would be nic...more >>

I've internationalized my product. From most of the reading I've done, it seems that the satellite assemblies need to be built "by hand" and so I've done this in the post-build step of my project although this is not very elegant. However, I notice that when doing a build of any old c# proj...more >>

Hi, I have an application that uses multiple currencies, I have been displaying the currencies with the currency symbol as defined in the RegionInfo class, but I have a situation where the "official" symbol is not the one commonly used or recognised by the users, specifically it's egyptian po...more >>