Re: Trouble with Greek + Windows

Hi,

HERMIER Christophe wrote:
>          After asking the translator it turns out that she uses a
> french version of windows then select "greek keyboard" !!!

If it is Win9x, then it explains it.

>          It seems to work correctly with "other programs" (I
> suspect she never use anything else than Word and Outlook :-( )

These are well known for side-stepping APIs available for the rest of 
us... What's more interesting is whether 'normal' apps display Greek 
(e.g. notepad).

>          She first installed poedit selecting "Greek" as the
> preferred language but her menus didn't display fine ( lots of "?"
> she says ).

That's because the OS' default font can't display Greek, probably.

>          She reinstalled selecting French this time and the menus
> are ok 

Because they can display French characters - not a big surprise in 
French version ;-)

> but Greek keyboard don't work...
>
>          Any ideas ??

Only one, I'm afraid: switch to some OS with Unicode support, e.g. 
Win2k.

Regards,
Vaclav

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