Support for other characters

[tetan]

Can Acucorp support Chinese or Arabic characters? If yes, how can I go about it?

 

[MuadDubby]

If you mean 'support' as far as printing characters is concerned, I suppose you could have support for any language you choose as long as you pick the proper font with W$WINPRINTER.

If you're talking about display, I'm not really sure.

.DaviD.

 

[3gm]

I've not done any multi-byte character set stuff with AcuCOBOL, but there was an article about converting ASCII to UNICODE and back in a recent AcuCorp newsletter. There is a sample zip file containing several useful routines on their web site (

http://www.acucorp.com)

based on that article. Look for "speaking.zip".

Glenn

 

[vinsnash]

I have successfully copied and pasted various versions of Chinese (GB, Big 5, etc.) from a Chinese Word Processor like NJStar or WenLin into an Acucobol working storage. If you're running Windows with character support or using a reader such as NJStars, the characters display correctly. You can even save the characters pasted into an entry field and display them from your data base. Takes a little trial and error but it works.

To satisfy my curiosity what is your application?

Vins Nash