Runtime Solutions under Japanese version of Windows

[J.B. Coe]

Does anyone know anything about possible system-wide problems caused by running an FM runtime on a Japanese version of Windows?

I work on a bibliographical project, based in the UK, but with international contributors. I've recently heard from our Japanese contributor that she's been having problems (she hasn't been very specific so far: 'the machine started to be annoyed by alterations of various letters and symbols, and the changes have become more and more extensive'), which she attributes to the runtime version of our database.

The runtime was created with Developer 5.5 under Win98.

Cheers,

-- Jon

[Thomas Berg]

As you say, it's not very specific. I haven't worked with runtimes, but I
do sometimes use English FM Pro or Dev on Japanese Windows. There are a
couple of "alterations of various letters and symbols" that seem to happen.

One is not the text on layouts, but FM's own text, on menus,in dialog boxes,
in the status area etc. It often (I haven't figured out a pattern as to
when) appears in a tiny, difficult to read font.

Another only comes up if one is entering Japanese text into a field. One
can enter Japanese text, and after the cursor leaves the field it will
appear properly (if the font includes Japanese characters, which come to
think of it if you built the system on English Windows it probably doesn't).
However while one is in the field, what one sees does not reflect what's
really in the field. Particularly, using the backspace or arrow keys gets
weird, as they seem to move the cursor in single-byte increments, allowing
one, for example, to erase half of a 2-byte Japanese character.

But now that I look at your message more closely, you seem to be saying the
problems are not in your database's window, but in other apps or throughout
the OS? I've seen nothing like that.

Thomas Berg


"J.B. Coe" <jbc1000@cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:bja230$c9d$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk...

> Does anyone know anything about possible system-wide problems caused by

running an FM runtime on a Japanese version of Windows?

>
> I work on a bibliographical project, based in the UK, but with

international contributors. I've recently heard from our Japanese
contributor that she's been having problems (she hasn't been very specific
so far: 'the machine started to be annoyed by alterations of various letters
and symbols, and the changes have become more and more extensive'), which
she attributes to the runtime version of our database.

>
> The runtime was created with Developer 5.5 under Win98.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Jon