BiggP Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 While creating a data capture system for weld cell production, a request was submitted to me for the ability to add operators names to each cell at every shift change. My employer is UK based, however we have a fair amount of Polish employees, so when it came to making a virtual keyboard with 26 latin and 9 diacritics for the Polish names, I stumbled on what seems to be a problem for many forum users over the years. Namely, using non-latin characters in non-unicode software that cannot be fixed by changing the codepage. If support for English plus one additional language's characters are required, there is a relatively straightforward way of achieving this: Open the control panel, select region(1), select the administrative tab(2), then in the language for non-unicode programs, click the change system locale button(3), choose desired language(4) and click ok(5) This is shown in picture below: Below is virtual keyboard when set to english (windows default) the red keys should be polish characters when entered using ALT codes: Below is same virtual keyboard with locale set to poland, which is correct: Below is virtual keyboard with locale set to russian, just to further test: I couldn't say what they represent, but some are recognisable to a non russian speaker (me). Anyway hope this helps someone, it is much easier than any other way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzeoTech Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 That is excellent information. Thank you for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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