Japanese language and GP

[BrotherOmar]

I understand Great Plains does not support the Japanese language. Does anyone know of a 3rd party module or other work-around for using Japanese in Great Plains?

Thanks

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[winthropdc]

The short answer is that Dexterity (the language behind Great Plains) does not understand double byte characters. So Microsoft will not support any double byte or unicode characters with Great Plains. See the KB article below:

https://mbs.microsoft.com/knowledgebase/KBDisplay.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;864986

However, I have seen products like RichWin used to allow Chinese characters to be entered into the non-key fields in Great Plains. There are some querks, such as having to press delete twice to delete a double byte character, but there are some sites out there using double byte.

Remember, that if you do this and have a problem with Great Plains, Microsoft will not support you if the problem cannot be replicated with only Single Byte characters.

David Musgrave [MSFT]
Senior Development Consultant
Escalation Engineer
MBS Support - Asia Pacific

Microsoft Business Solutions

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