Internationalization

[shridhargune]

1. Our company is developing a enterprise solution using Borland Delphi and Crystal Reports 8.0. We are having following issues regarding internationalization.

Our application has a option to change Locale internally, means no need to change regional settings in OS. UI will work fine but Reports won’t. As Crystal Reports is dependent on OS regional settings for Date & Number formats, separators etc.

Can anyone suggest some solution so that locale settings changes(Date separator, Thousands separator etc) are reflected in reports without changing regional settings on the OS?

2. As I have mentioned earlier crystal reports is dependent on regional settings in OS. But it’s not fully dependent on regional settings in OS. For example in INDIA numbers are displayed like 99,99,999.99 and not like 999,999,999.99. This is controlled by Digit grouping in regional settings but changes to digit grouping are not reflected in Crystal Reports. Can anyone suggest some solution.

Thanks in Advance

Best Regards

Shridhar

 

[HowardHammerman]

At the Crystal users conference one of the main presentations was about Crystal Reports 9.0. The presenter said that it will support this type of regionalization. The rumor is that it will be relased in the next six months.

Have you tried using the conditional formating icons associated with each part of the date and number fields? Just click on the 'X+2' icon next to each part of the format and enter an expression. However, the particular problem you show in regard to the way India handles digits stops me. I know how to do it by turning it into a string, but I can't think of a way to format it in the way you want and keep it as a number. Howard Hammerman,

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