Preparing to Create a Chinese Access Database

Add Simplified Chinese to Japanese Windows and create a Chinese environment

• Windows supports all languages, both Chinese and Korean.
• Control Panel - Add Simplified Chinese in Regional and Language Options.

Development environment

• WindowsXP SP2 Japanese version, Microsoft Access2003 Japanese version, Microsoft Access2003 Chinese version

English-Japanese-Chinese conversion table was created at the beginning.

• I translated the words I use and the short sentences I use for messages into Chinese.
• Forms, tables, queries, etc. all the designs of each object are written in English.
• Forms, reports where the user can see should be written in Chinese

Label Printers(Brother Co., Products) and Handy Terminal(Chinese version)

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• Output to Handy Terminal(Chinese version made by Keyence Co.,) then Garbled characters occur when outputting master data to a file
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• Label Printers(Brother Co., Products) was fine in Chinese.

Chinese version Access looks like this, menu-bar, table, querys

Chinese version Access's menu-bar

• Because it was displayed in Chinese, We could barely understand it. For example is Ctrl+C.
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Table

• Table design screen of Chinese Access
• All are written in English.
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Query

• Query design screen of Chinese Access
• All are written in English.
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Form

• Form design screen of Chinese Access
• The visible parts are in Chinese and some are written in Japanese (for Japanese expatriates).
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Report

• Report design screen of Chinese Access
• All are written in English.
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Macro

• Macro design screen of Chinese Access
• The visible parts are in Chinese and some are written in Japanese (for Japanese expatriates).
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VBA (Visual Basic for Application)

• VBA design screen of Chinese Access
• All are written in English.
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Garbled characters occur in text file output

• In the import/export definition, I forgot to specify the Chinese code, so it was garbled when I output it to a file.

External links

• Chinese Translation Site Chinese Translation - excite Translation
• Honda Motor Group China