A kiosk product we have was translated into Chinese a few years ago and has been running well since then.
We had 2 small problems:
PC setup - The Regional and Language settings need to be set to use Chinese (or whatever) as the language for non-unicode programs. Our program uses an embedded Chinese font and sometimes crashes if the setup is wrong. This is not a big problem for us because it is on a kiosk- on a CD you might need to check.
Another problem we had was to do with saving a string as an Access file. This works on every platform except Chinese, where it causes the mdb to fail to open with a password required error. We had to make a workaround for that.
So it was not as bad as I thought it might be.
good luck
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At 04:41 p.m. 11/05/2004 -0400, you wrote:
So, I'm working on a software product (in Director, mainly). Been brought into the project, this is something that is already up and running and architected and shipping.
This product is quickly being translated from English to German, Italian, French, Spanish, as well as Japanese and both Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
I've done English/Spanish/Portuguese products for Latin America before, so I imagine the G,I,F,S's will be more or less ok. Where do I even start for J,SC,TC?
Any Tips, Caveats, Haranging to Test Early, Test Often, Test On Real Not Simulated Systems, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
PC Only.
roymeo
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