I have a Command Prompt window open and select all the characters and copy
them to the clipboard (some are OEM graphics symbols).
I then read them from the clipboard:
str = CType(DataO.GetData(DataFormats.OemText, False), String)

I'm translating an application from Chinese to English. When I opened
source code, I found all Chinese string were not displayed correct. It
seems there is no encoding for Chinese. I went to
Tools-Options-Environment-International Settings, but there is not

Hi, I have a problem that I'm pretty sure is not an usual one
I have an asp.net app that's running in a server in Texas-US but I'm
operating the system in Brasil, this means that every time I have to deal
with the current date/time (now() function) I get the values from a timezone ...

I have created the resource files for the cultures that I am in need of.
After I had saved the resource files, now I need to change the size of the
controls for a particular culture.
One way is to open the resource file, type the property name and the value

Hello everbody,
many of the properties from a control are set to another value, if I
turn the localizable flag on (to true).
The similarities of the broken controlls are that they are inherited

I have set the culture for my form using
   Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture
I have to display a date according to the format of the current culture.
When I display the date there seems to be no difference for ar-DZ and el-GR

In some scenarios I need to be able run my app in a different culture
than the one currently active in the OS. For example my app has to
display datetime formats, menu/dialogtexts and common dialogs (such as
the save as dialog) in englisch while the current culture of the OS is

I read that when the localizable property of the Form is set to true and the
language is selected, then VB.Net automatically adds the resource file for
the particular culture.
And this can be viewed using 'Show All files'

I have created a spanish resx file in VS, but when I attempt to load the
spanish resx file in Winres.exe I get the following error:
   "The default culture file for the current culture not found, Please add
the defult culture file."

Hi everyone, I'm trying to create a time string of the format 11/28/06
6:24:24 PM EST with C#, and I can get the full name of "Eastern Standard
Time", but I don't see a method to retrieve the abbreviation.  Is there a
way to do this?  The equivalent in Java as far as I know is ...

I have an application with a default language, which I just translated
to another language by setting localizable to true and setting the new
language. For the new language a resource file is created automatically.
For the default language it isn't.

In the resx file of a windows form where Localizable==true, what's the
purpose of the ">>" prefix to name and type properties of $this and
components ?
TIA,

I'm using Delphi 2006 and I have a class defination like this:
TPerson = class
fPersonName  : String;
fPersonSurName : String;

I'm localising an app which involves a very small number of changes to
Text/Visible/Location/Size properties on a small number of controls (this is
a UK to Australia conversion) on a few forms. The side-effect of using
localisation here is that my main assembly has now increased ...