Questions tagged [i18n]

Questions about using software in a language other than the one(s) the developer speaks and related troubles, such as lack of Unicode support. (i18n is short for internationalization.)

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How can I edit text in right-to-left direction in Eclipse (on Windows)?

The official website of Eclipse says that they support RTL text editing. They say that, in order to activate RTL support, Eclipse should be started from the command line with argument: -bidi "on=y;...
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How can I get Windows 7 to display the "Insert Unicode control character" menu in Chrome?

I'm trying to help a translator l10n our application into Arabic and need to find a way for her to easily enter right-to-left and left-to-right Unicode characters in Google Chrome on Windows 7 (I'm ...
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Man and LANG issue

My LANG=ru_RU.cp1251 so if man page was translated I get garbage in output. Problem lies out of 'cp1251' because /usr/share/man/ru store man pages in different encoding: /usr/share/man/ru/man1/mc....
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get output from cmdline application independently of system's locale

I'm trying to get the full OS-version information of a w32 host in a script (thus: from the cmdline), to be run on a variety of different machines. For this, i'm using the systeminfo as described in ...
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Vista fails to load user profile if i dont choose user account quickly

i know this question is kind of vague, but here´s what i know. When i turn on the computer and the user account selection screen shows up, if I choose a user right away everything works properly. But ...
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Localized directshow device names

On my computer device list obtained by ffmpeg looks following: Two devices before end named with garbage symbols. It is impossible to use these devices directly. How to use them then? UPDATE ...
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Changing Ubuntu locale settings by GUI crashes the accounts-daemon

I'm usung Ubuntu 12.04 and after an automatic update it changed the system default encoding form UTF-8 to "ANSI_X3.4-1968". I realized that when my code comments in Eclipse appeared with strange ...
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How do I change the default font for Chinese in OneNote?

I know it is possible to change the default font for all languages in OneNote, but is it possible to change the default font for Chinese, or is it a systemwide setting? It currently defaults to "...
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& is displayed in some titles in 'settings' windows

At some point & is not properly displayed as & in some system menus. How this can be cured? Ubuntu Gnome (look at window title).
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Office 2003 file dialog can't switch input language with Windows 7

I'm using Microsoft Office 2003 (SP3) on Windows 7 (86x or 64x) My issue is when I try to save a file, in the file selection dialog Office 2003 can't change the input language or the direction (...
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