Sederburg,
Translation tool kit can do the job for you. It comes with PB 5.0 and
higher version. It's neat tool and it can translate to 52 different
languages.
Lynn Nguyen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sederburg, Van [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 1:28 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: PFCSIG Greek Characters
>
>
> I don't think there's a PFC solution to this, but....
>
> I'm trying to solve a problem where a user has the Windows 98 regional
> settings set to "Greek", and can therefore add greek characters to text
> fields in the application. This works great and the characters display
> perfectly. However, when he runs a report, the characters are garbled,
> both in preview mode and on the actual printed output.
>
> I'm pretty sure this is some kind of font issue, but I haven't figured out
> the best solution. Here are the details:
>
> Display font for windows: MS Sans Serif, 8pt
> Display/print font for REPORTS: Arial, 9 pt.
>
> At first glance, I assumed that Arial simply didn't support greek
> characters, but looking at the character map of both fonts, neither of
> them
> appear to contain those characters. Why then do the characters display
> fine
> in MS Sans Serif? So, if that's the case, do reports need to use MS Sans
> Serif?
>
> If that's the solution, that's simple, but it still seems strange. I
> initially used MS Sans Serif for reports but users complained that on some
> printers the text came out extremely tiny. So, I switched to Arial, which
> I
> thought was the preferred standard.
>
> I'm using PB 5.0.4, soon to be upgraded to 6.5, and PFC.
>
> Thanks for any ideas!
>
> Van Sederburg
>
>
> PS: I can't personally observe the behavior because my machine doesn't
> have
> a Greek regional setting (Win95), and I can't go to the user's machine,
> because it is in Greece.
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