Kbase P115668: How to configure a Progress Windows client for Polish Central European locale
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
11/02/2009 |
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Status: Unverified
GOAL:
How to configure a Windows client for Polish locale
GOAL:
What are the parameters needed to start a windows client for Polish deployment.
FACT(s) (Environment):
Windows
Windows XP
Progress 9.x
OpenEdge Category: Configuration
OpenEdge 10.x
OpenEdge Category: I18N
FIX:
The Windows 1250 code page is the correct code page for a Windows GUI Polish client. There is a MAZOVIA alternative but this contains a lot of line drawing characters that are more suited to Character Client applications. There is also the UTF-8 client in OpenEdge, but this is not available in Progress version 9. For Windows applications the progress session should start with:
prowin32.exe -cpinternal 1250 -cpstream 1250 -cpcoll polish
The Polish keyboard is needed to enter Polish Characters so the Windows client must be configured with a Polish keyboard. For this use:
Start->Settings ->Control Panel->Regional and Language Options->Languages (Tab)->Details.
Then use the Add button to add a Polish input language and corresponding keyboard layout.
After adding the Polish keyboard and selecting it on the Windows task bar it should be able to enter Polish characters in a Progress session started as described above. If some of the characters do not look correct then this is likely a font issue and can be corrected by selecting a Central European script font for the Procedure Editor by using Buffer->Font. Then select a font greater than 7 and change this to a font using a Central European script.
Changing DefaultFont and DefaultFixedFont in an ini file will not correct the procedure editor font because the procedure editor uses font2 in the ini file. Since this is in the range of fonts reserved for Progress it is not recommended to modify it.
Ideally the Windows client should be configured to use a default Polish locale and keyboard. This is the correct setting for Polish users. So for deployment this is the best option. To do this use:
Start->Settings ->Control Panel->Regional and Language Options.
Then use the Languages Tab to add a keyboard as described above, and the Advanced tab to select the default Polish locale. After a reboot it should not be necessary to modify the ini file fonts and the Progress session should be able to enter Polish text.