Chinese Characters - MS Graph etc.

[Guest]

An obscure question and not even sure if it's in the right place - however,
someone may know the answer. I have an Access application that has lookup
tables for different languages. The European languages work fine - English,
French, German, Spanish and so on. I also have a Chinese lookup table which
displays characters OK in text boxes (report title, forms literals etc) but
the text within message boxes and on graph axes are either vertical bars or
question marks, even when running on a machine in China. Bit of a long shot
whether anyone can help but worth a try! Thanks......

 

[Kath Adams]

An obscure question and not even sure if it's in the right place -
however, someone may know the answer. I have an Access application
that has lookup tables for different languages. The European
languages work fine - English, French, German, Spanish and so on. I
also have a Chinese lookup table which displays characters OK in text
boxes (report title, forms literals etc) but the text within message
boxes and on graph axes are either vertical bars or question marks,
even when running on a machine in China. Bit of a long shot whether
anyone can help but worth a try! Thanks......

Is the actual message box size sufficient for the number of characters
it has to display? Just something that occured to me. I have never used
Access, but in Excel if the column width is not wide enough you will see
"hash" signs. Just wondering if this may be a similar thing, the Chinese
characters may be wider than Englsih characters.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your post....yes there is sufficient space. The text displays
inside a message box which essentially takes up as much space as it needs as
well as on graph axes. It looks as though message text and graph literals
are 'processed' differently to straight text boxes on a report heading or
form.