I have a list of language codes that I'd like my PocketPC app to support.
During initialization, I attempt to create a culture from each language code
in the list. For each success, I permit the user to request that language by
adding it to a menu.

However, my PocketPC (Dell Axim) can not create a culture for CultureCode
"ja" (Japanese):

mCulture = New CultureInfo(CultureCode, False)

Do I need to add something to my Axim to permit it to display Japanese?
Thanks.

Richard Kucia

Richard,

There are multiple international editions of PPC devices available. If
Japanese locale is not exposed as an option in Regional settings of your
device, your device is missing some information required to fully support
this culture. .NetCF supports the superset of cultures that can be exposed
by PPC devices. However, when creating CultureInfo() instance, runtime
checks if the culture you want is supported by the particular device you
run on. If this is not the case, you'll get PlatformNotSupportedException
at the runtime. If you run the same app on the device that supports
Japanese locale, the same code will work smoothly. I don't hink there is an
easy way to unsupported culture to the device, cince lots of
culture-specific information is to be added (fonts, numeric and datetime
format data, linguistic string comparison rules, etc.). You'll need to get
a new image for you device or test your app on Japanese edition of the
device.

- Roman

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| I have a list of language codes that I'd like my PocketPC app to support.
| During initialization, I attempt to create a culture from each language
code
| in the list. For each success, I permit the user to request that language
by
| adding it to a menu.
|
| However, my PocketPC (Dell Axim) can not create a culture for CultureCode
| "ja" (Japanese):
|
| mCulture = New CultureInfo(CultureCode, False)
|
| Do I need to add something to my Axim to permit it to display Japanese?
| Thanks.
|
| Richard Kucia
|
|
|

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