just what is the status with languages?

rbuser

I was already to purchase RB when I thought I would check about Unicode
support. I have been going back over the archives trying to get a handle on
what the support for multi-languages are and am confused by some of the
posts I have seen. It would appear that RB does not support Unicode. There
are also statements saying it does not support MCBS. But then I have seen
posts indicating that if I have characters stored in a database field and I
put this on a report with the correct font/charset on the report that it
would print ok. I have seen though that there are issues with wordwrapping
on such text.

However, RB does come with language translations. Now I gather these are
resources for strings displayed by RB, but what would be the point of having
a Chinese language pack if you couldn;t print the report in Chinese?

Bottom line is I need to generate reports that print things in Chinese and
possibly other Asian languages.

So what is the capability of ReportBuilder?

Thanks

Jeff

nicocizik

Jeff,

ReportBuilder does not have any explicit support for MBCS. This is on our
to-do list.

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rbuser

But are people actually using it to do reports in Chinese or not? I mean my
program doesn't have explicit support for MCBS but people can still type a
characters into an Edit box and they get stored correctly, without any
explicit work on my behalf.

rbuser

We have been using RB from 4.x version for printing both Traditional Chinese
and Simplified Chinese reports without problem.

You can find samples in our web site: http://www.gtcl.com.hk. Enhanced
edtion is using RB 6.x and Professional edition is using RB 4.23.

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Best Regards,
Earnest