Hi There,

I am having problems showing some french characters in my C# Windows
Application. So far I've noticed the "ê" (like in Arrêt) shows incorrect. I
also noticed that if type the French accents in the IDE they show
accordingly, but if I edit my resource file with "winres.exe" they will not
show correctly when localizing my forms. Any idea what I am doing wrong in
my .resx files?

Thanks in advance,
I. Perez

There are some incompatibilities between the IDE and WinRes.Exe and these
two tools shouldn't be used at the same time for the same resource files.
See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...rWinresexe.asp
for more information on this topic.

You may have problem with french characters when you are using multiple
codepages on your system and inside the IDE. The best way to solve these
problems is to make sure that the files are saved with the same code page as
your system - usually this is CodePage 1252 for english and french versions
of Windows - or are saved in one of the Unicode Format. In the Advanced
Save Options window, you can choose between CodePage 1252, UTF-8 with or
without signature (both 65001) and UTF-16 with Little (1200) or Big Endian
(1201). I think that chosing UTF-8 with signature or UTF-16 Little Endian
(1200) are two good choices for solving localization problems but the use of
CodePage 1252 should be a good one, too; excerpt in the cases where this is
not the default code page of your installation of Windows.

--
Sylvain Lafontaine, ing.
MVP - Technologies Virtual-PC
E-mail: http://cerbermail.com/?QugbLEWINF


"Iroel Perez" <iperezNO (AT) SPAMmulticorpora (DOT) com> wrote

Source code file encoding can be a problem, and as Sylvain suggests, you
can avoid codepage incompatibilities by saving them in a Unicode encoding.
Note: RESX files, being XML-based, default to UTF-8.

While it unfortunately doesn't help with Visual Studio v2002 or v2003, the
version of WinRes.exe that ships with Visual Studio 2005 includes a new
compability mode. RESX files can be saved in either Visual Studio File Mode
to maintain interoperability with the IDE or in Single File Mode if they
don't need to be opened in the IDE.

Cheers,
Garrett McGowan [MSFT Developer International]

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