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    Multiple Language / Unicode Support in V11

    Dear staff / Alpha Developers

    I am working under development fields over 10 years ,
    I would like to bring the attention that alpha do not support languages expect English ,
    why the alpha team do not throw the problem on the thread and make people get involved into the problem in order to sort the issue of languages input/read from dbf.

    This is so important for all the people who works in alpha. it will provide more visions and Prospects for developers to use alpha in other ways...

    I see this as really danger and high risk in alpha software. loads of people in my country do not go with alpha due to this issue.
    so this is a msg for alpha staff.

    Can you answer us clearly if we can have this issue solved in the next update
    knowing that V10 is better in uni code converting than V11
    for example:
    in v10 i can read Arabic or Spanish language from up datable grids. but i am not able to do this in alpha 11.
    why? this is a question should be answers immediately by alpha team.

    Please everyone pump this thread if you bilelave alpha should support multi language . in grids and every component that we use in our software
    lets all stick together so we can solve this matter.

    Best luck
    Waiting for answers.

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    Best Regards,
    Kamel Jazmati

    [email protected]
    Kamelj.com
    @KamelZJ

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    Re: Weakness of Alpha software V11 ( PLEASE READ ALL ) IMPORTANT

    Totally agree - the world is BIG place with MANY people - with MANY Needs - MANY Languages - 'Even Australian' - Interested to see the answer and hear the plan.
    Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
    Albert Einstein, (attributed)
    US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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      #3
      Re: Weakness of Alpha software V11 ( PLEASE READ ALL ) IMPORTANT

      you ask me how i should rate the alpha i would tell you its amazing software ...
      but i think the problem is with the staff / developers who are trying to solve issues .. but i agree
      they are WEAK !!
      why i am saying this ?
      because if you search the thread .. its always the same problem .. when people go to higher version in alpha they expect to move up ... but in this alpha 11 version .. they forgot to do what they did in alpha 10
      and we must solve this issue immediately ASAP .
      STAFF please answer us .. i am not being aggressive but please consider this thread ' high priority ' issue to resolve

      i am waiting too for answers .

      Regards
      Ahmed Sh
      Last edited by aal_fareed; 03-05-2012, 07:42 AM.
      To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.�

      - William Faulkner

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        #4
        Re: Weakness of Alpha software V11 ( PLEASE READ ALL ) IMPORTANT

        Originally posted by peteconway View Post
        Totally agree - the world is BIG place with MANY people - with MANY Needs - MANY Languages - 'Even Australian' - Interested to see the answer and hear the plan.
        Agreed
        To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.�

        - William Faulkner

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          #5
          Re: Weakness of Alpha software V11 ( PLEASE READ ALL ) IMPORTANT

          I am very surprised by this post. We have thousands of developers who are developing apps in a wide variety of languages.

          Web applications in Alpha Five are all UTF-8.

          If you have a specific issue of something that worked in v10, but does not work in v11, then you should post a bug report that includes instructions on how to duplicate the issue and we will fix it.

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            #6
            Re: Weakness of Alpha software V11 ( PLEASE READ ALL ) IMPORTANT

            Originally posted by Selwyn Rabins View Post
            I am very surprised by this post. We have thousands of developers who are developing apps in a wide variety of languages.

            Web applications in Alpha Five are all UTF-8.

            If you have a specific issue of something that worked in v10, but does not work in v11, then you should post a bug report that includes instructions on how to duplicate the issue and we will fix it.
            Well... this what i did maybe month ago and there was no response from alpha at all ...
            all I wanted is to bring attention to this matter cus i am facing stress from customers who are running their application through alpha .
            well .. i am guessing that alpha should help me to sort this problem ASAP because when we deal with customers they do not understand anything about how the job is getting done .
            in other words , i need this issue to be resolved as soon as possible or at least make me feel safe that alpha are working to solve this issue . Otherwise i will face really big problems running all the application that i implemented for customers through alpha.
            and i am happy for your response .
            thanks you but can you please update us if alpha are going to provide any patch updates for this matter ?
            I am sorry for sounding like a crying kid, but really i am facing trouble here .
            thanks again for your response
            To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.�

            - William Faulkner

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              #7
              Re: Weakness of Alpha software V11 ( PLEASE READ ALL ) IMPORTANT

              please submit the bug report again, and copy me on it: [email protected].

              be sure that your bug report includes a test case. without a test case there is nothing we can do.

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                #8
                Re: Weakness of Alpha software V11 ( PLEASE READ ALL ) IMPORTANT

                Originally posted by Selwyn Rabins View Post
                please submit the bug report again, and copy me on it: [email protected].

                be sure that your bug report includes a test case. without a test case there is nothing we can do.
                thank you selwyn ... i really appreciate it . i will work on it and send it to you .
                To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.�

                - William Faulkner

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                  #9
                  Re: Weakness of Alpha software V11 ( PLEASE READ ALL ) IMPORTANT

                  Ahmed,

                  Bug Reports are submitted using the Help button in Alpha Five. This results in an email being sent to Alpha. I say this because sometimes users think this message board is the proper way to submit a bug report, and it is not.

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                    #10
                    Re: Weakness of Alpha software V11 ( PLEASE READ ALL ) IMPORTANT

                    Originally posted by Tom Cone Jr View Post
                    Ahmed,

                    Bug Reports are submitted using the Help button in Alpha Five. This results in an email being sent to Alpha. I say this because sometimes users think this message board is the proper way to submit a bug report, and it is not.
                    i did submit the report through outlook as it pop up when i hit the submit bug button ,
                    in my opinion ... the report should be sent to alpha team by grid that built in in alpha ,
                    cus i cannot tell if alpha have received it or not , i am saying this because i did not even get the auto replay msg that we usually should get when we send to alpha team .
                    also , due to maybe domain block or anti spam or anti virus in clients sides or even alpha side , i find it more efficient if they make something like questionnaire form to submit the bug report .
                    Thank you so much though for your response
                    Ahmed Sh
                    To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.�

                    - William Faulkner

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                      Re: Weakness of Alpha software V11 ( PLEASE READ ALL ) IMPORTANT

                      i find it more efficient if they make something like questionnaire form to submit the bug report .
                      I like it!
                      Peter
                      AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

                      [email protected]
                      https://www.alphabasesolutions.com


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                        #12
                        Re: Weakness of Alpha software V11 ( PLEASE READ ALL ) IMPORTANT

                        The all issue is about non-unicode languages like arabic, chinees and etc...

                        in V10 there was some problems for example, in dbf this languages didn't display in editing mode. (notice it in attach photo to understand what I mean).

                        and in V11 this problem appear is growing and this version appear isn't support non-unicode languages contrary to what we expected. as I see... (also here I attach photo to see what I'm speaking about)

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                        Regards,,,
                        Best Regards,
                        Kamel Jazmati

                        [email protected]
                        Kamelj.com
                        @KamelZJ

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                          #13
                          Re: Weakness of Alpha software V11 ( PLEASE READ ALL ) IMPORTANT

                          Also on V10, the export to excel action doesn't support non-unicode languages.
                          Best Regards,
                          Kamel Jazmati

                          [email protected]
                          Kamelj.com
                          @KamelZJ

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                            #14
                            Re: Weakness of Alpha software V11 ( PLEASE READ ALL ) IMPORTANT

                            Are you sure it isnt just a case where your DBF tables don't support unicode? I can store and display unicode in a normal, unaltered V11 grid using MySQL as the database (table set to utf8). Can you provide a text file with some sample Arabic and I will try inserting that test.
                            Steve Wood
                            See my profile on IADN

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                              #15
                              Re: Weakness of Alpha software V11 ( PLEASE READ ALL ) IMPORTANT

                              Originally posted by Steve Wood View Post
                              Are you sure it isnt just a case where your DBF tables don't support unicode? I can store and display unicode in a normal, unaltered V11 grid using MySQL as the database (table set to utf8). Can you provide a text file with some sample Arabic and I will try inserting that test.
                              hello steve , btw am following with andy now as he told me you are busy working , anyways
                              this is a text file with arabic letter in it

                              and here is arabic letter
                              شكرا لك يا ستيف لمحاولتك حل هذه المشكله ...
                              check attachment

                              waiting your replay
                              Ahmed Sh
                              Attached Files
                              To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.�

                              - William Faulkner

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