I am new to this group and have just started researching about globalization. I  need to convert my application so that atleast the UI parts can be customized for different languages Platfrom. By different language platform I mean I need to run it on Windows 2000 German etc..

Hello all.  I need some help with localization.  I read that an
application's culture can be changed by
Thread.CurrentThread.CultureUICulture = new CultureInfo(<new culture>);
However, that line of code must be executed before

I apologize in advance for the length of this posting.  I am an experienced
software developer, but new to the world of character encodings and code
pages.  I'm trying to understand whether or not .Net contains built-in
support (presumably via Encoding.GetEncoding) for the MARC-8 ...

I have an ASP.NET / MS SQL application which is done and I just have to
upload it, but there is a big problem. It's big for me....
The Webforms content text which is cyrillic and when I have uploaded the
site, it couldn't be read. The server is in USA, the users will be Bulgarian

i am workign on a web application developed on asp.net and code behind as vb.net. i am getting data from sql2000 server . most of the data are in chinese. while i am exporting to excel some of the chinese char are displayed as junk.
my code is
Response.ClearHeaders()
Response ...

My requirement is that I need to display in the same page/document some text
in English and some other text in localized language (French, german etc).
Can you please let me know whether this functionality can be implemented? If
so, please provide information (links/sample code ...

Hi, I use RichTextBox control(6.0 SP4, Richtx32.ocx packed with VB6.0) in my VB Project. It works fine in Win Me, but awfully on Win XP in some occasion.  When I paste Geek alphabet into this control repeatly, and use its SelLength attribute to enable/disable a command in ...

From the data view of a resx file, we can see name, value, comment, type, and
minetype columns. I can use ResXResourceWriter to write name and value. How
can I write data to comment column in the code?
Thank you in advance!

My application is developed in English. Now i want to globalize it(i don't want web based application). Now i can change static data to particular language ( e.g Thai, Hindi) but i can't change data into particular language which comes from database.
Can anybody help me to ...

I am working on internationalizing my app. I have all the resources and
structure in place but I am unable to figure out the best way to handle
control resizing in order to accommodate localized strings which are larger
then the English version.

I seem to be having a problem accessing the resource information in
dynamically loaded assemblies.
This best explained using an example.
I have a class called TestClass in a Test.dll. Using a TestClass.resx,

Is there any way to create and register a custom codepage/encoding object so
that
System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding() returns it?
i.e.

I have to display content (specially currencies) in the Users local format.
Currently Iam doing below in my code (VB.NET)
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Imports System.Web

Is it possible to set the LCID in the web.config so that i don't need to
specify it everywhere else. I'm sure it is, but i can't find any
documentation.
Thanks

I m working on an Arabic/English project.
One of the first recommendations was the Mirroring technique for Controls
that Do no draw themsleves from the Right .
The mirroring can be applied successfully on the TabControl when it is