I'll try explaining this in as much detail as possible, so please bear with me since this may get lengthy and still not provide enough detail.
We have a Web based application running on Windows 2003 server OS that passes data into an Oracle database on a Unix server. This application is programmed to display in a variety of language options based on your IE language settings. Part of this application produces reports linked to the Oracle database through an OleDb connection in pdf format through Crystal 9 RAS. Here's the issue:
These reports have to be viewable in multiple languages including Simplified Chinese, English, French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Thai, etc. Running the reports locally requires the regional options language default to be correct for the type of language to display AND the NLS language settings in the registry to be set appropriately. If not, the characters (other than English) are all garbage. For the server application to run correctly, the default language in the regional options is set to Western European and United States while the NLS settings are for AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8. Reading through Microsoft's information on the MS AppLocale utility, it appears that this may be a viable solution to our problem by having the RAS application override the server defaults and be based on the client PC settings. Changing the server settings isn't an option. Has anyone figured out a workaround to displaying a single report in multiple languages on a Web based system or does anyone have any experience with the MS AppLocale utility and Crystal? Thanks in advance.
We have a Web based application running on Windows 2003 server OS that passes data into an Oracle database on a Unix server. This application is programmed to display in a variety of language options based on your IE language settings. Part of this application produces reports linked to the Oracle database through an OleDb connection in pdf format through Crystal 9 RAS. Here's the issue:
These reports have to be viewable in multiple languages including Simplified Chinese, English, French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Thai, etc. Running the reports locally requires the regional options language default to be correct for the type of language to display AND the NLS language settings in the registry to be set appropriately. If not, the characters (other than English) are all garbage. For the server application to run correctly, the default language in the regional options is set to Western European and United States while the NLS settings are for AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8. Reading through Microsoft's information on the MS AppLocale utility, it appears that this may be a viable solution to our problem by having the RAS application override the server defaults and be based on the client PC settings. Changing the server settings isn't an option. Has anyone figured out a workaround to displaying a single report in multiple languages on a Web based system or does anyone have any experience with the MS AppLocale utility and Crystal? Thanks in advance.