Multilingual apps (especially chinese) - Which codepage?

Former Member over 10 years ago

Hello,

I want to add more languages to my app, especially chinese, russian and spanish. My currently codepage from project properties is Cp1252 (default inherited) and the files are UTF8 coded, tells me the compiler. The web says that for chinese language it is recommend to use UTF16, but the most popular chinese sites are served in UTF8!?

What to do, to support chinese?
Should I use traditional chinese oder simplified?
If the user had chinese language set on the device, can he read english texts?
Can zhs and zht be used by the same codepage?
What is the "default" language of Connect IQ apps?

Best regards

Brandon.ConnectIQ over 10 years ago

Generally, we recommend using UTF-8 for all custom fonts. The Windows version of Eclipse defaults to CP1252, but we encode everything as UTF-8 and read everything as UTF-8 in the compiler and CIQ plug-in.

Chinese language is fully supported on the APAC (Asia-Pacific) variants of our devices (which have full language support for Asian languages), and can also display English characters. You may still add custom Chinese fonts to non-APAC devices, which might be useful for displaying date information on a watch face in Chinese or something similar, but you'll probably run into memory limits if you try to include full Chinese language support. Custom fonts can make your compiled apps pretty large.

Former Member over 9 years ago

Instructions, please, on how to add Chinese characters

You mentioned it's possible to add Chinese characters.

Could you point out how to do this?

As you see in the forums, there are many people who'd like to know.

Thanks!