Transfering the user interface of a application from western europe to chinese

[waldemar.hersacher]

I have a application which supports the user interface in several languages (german, english, italian, spanish, french, swedish). This is done by reading a spreadsheet file with tags in column one and the text in the column of the language. This text is displayed on the front panel by setting the caption or texts of the controls.

My customer now wants to have a chinese user interface.
I found some documents here using "chinese" as keyword and following them I need only to install the correct font.

Have I take something else into account? We will restrict the OS to Win2000 and WinXP. We will distribute a application, so the development enviroment will not be on the target machine. Do we n
eed to use the japanese run time?

Waldemar

[Liz F]

Hello Waldemar,

Thank you for contacting National Instruments. I would like to apologize for the delay in responding to your support request. We have been on holiday for the past few days due to Thanksgiving.

From the information you have provided here, it sounds like you are on the right track with getting your application up and running with a chinese font interface. I would like to point out an extremely helpful KnowledgeBase that you might use for reference now and any other time you need to localize your user interface:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/5987FCAFE3FBE8B98625693B0052EBD9?OpenDocument

(This KB was written for LabVIEW 6.0, but is still relevant for LabVIEW 7.0.) Based on this document, you only need "an MBCS-enabled operating s
ystem with an IME for the corresponding language." All 32-bit Windows operating systems are MBCS-enabled. Please see these links from the Microsoft website for more information:

http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?View=msdn&st=a&qu=mbcs&c=4&s=2

You may also find this tutorial describing localization procedures useful:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/2d17d611efb58b22862567a9006ffe76/6d94f90fc9b93aad862568a7007cd4c0?OpenDocument

I would recommend that you go ahead and install the Chinese fonts to your OS (if you have not already), and develop your user interface using the new font. This application should have no problem on any other machine with the Chinese font enabled.

I hope this helps! Let me know if there is anything else I can help with or clarify. Have a great day!

Liz Fausak
National Instruments

[pavitrabaxi]

Hi,

I have a similar problem as described by Waldemar, only change is that im using a SUSE Linux system with labview 8 installed. I have chinese fonts installed on my Linux system and changed the language and regional settings to chinese, but labview is not displaying chinese characters.

Is the solution given for a windows system applicable also for a linux system?

Thanks

Pavitra

[d.w.b]

"Localizing Your LabVIEW Application to Different Languages" is [now] at http://www.ni.com/tutorial/3603/en/