On creating a bilingual Windows application in .net

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Hello There,

I have started developing an bilingual windows application in Tamil and English. The problem is i want to type Tamil language into text box, I even changed the font of the text box to Tamil but it displays only empty boxes. I just want to know the method for making the text box accept Tamil font. How to do it for .net windows application.

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Posted 23-Aug-12 2:21am

Arunsaar

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ZurdoDev 23-Aug-12 8:32am

I believe it also depends on the users regional settings in Windows.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Aug-12 14:23pm

No, it does not. You can change the UI thread's and other thread cultures on the fly in .NET without any problems.
--SA

ZurdoDev 23-Aug-12 14:24pm

I know that. But that does not mean your keyboard will all of the sudden start typing in a character set that you don't have.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Aug-12 14:29pm

Sure :-)
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Aug-12 14:28pm

Tamil is a very popular language so it is supported by most modern systems by default. Look, I'm typing: ஂஃஅஆஇஈஉஊ ... ௰௱௲. And I never installed anything related to Tamil; this is Windows installed with English (US) locale and nothing additional. If I can do it, your code should do it unless you screw up it in some specific way. I have no idea how could you run into this problem, would need to look at your code. Could you create a very short but complete sample, concentrating on just one problem and show it using "Improve question"?
--SA

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Bernhard Hiller · Answer 1 · 2012-08-23T20:56:00

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I guess that the problem comes from your special "Tamil font": is it some odd old font for use with non-Unicode systems? Does it display ASCII characters as if they are Tamil characters? Get rid of that font, take some "normal" font for Unicode characters.

Posted 23-Aug-12 20:56pm

Bernhard Hiller

Kuthuparakkal · Answer 2 · 2012-08-23T16:32:00

Solution 1

try this :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y99d1cd3(v=vs.100).aspx[^]

Posted 23-Aug-12 16:32pm

Kuthuparakkal