Japanese dates problem

Ron rbarber at yhb.att.ne.jp
Fri Dec 30 07:26:42 EST 2005


Hi Sarah,

I imagine the long system date, which includes the name of the day and 
month, is in unicode since the names are in Japanese. If tNow is indeed 
unicode then it may help to "put unidecode(tNow,"Japanese") into tNow". 
  I don't have access to a Japanese system right this second, but you 
could try this and see if it works for your Japanese users.

HTH
Ron


On Dec 28, 2005, at 2:26 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have received some error reports from Japanese users of my Pic-a-POD
> program and they all get an error at the same point. Here is the
> script snippet:
>
>         convert tNow from long system date to seconds
>         subtract 86400 from tNow
>
> with the error report showing:
>
>       Type: subtract: destination has a bad format (numeric?)
>
> So it looks as if the date conversion is not working correctly. I'm
> pretty sure the value of tNow is OK since it is just taken from a
> field that is set to "the long system date" on startup. I don't know
> anything about Unicode, but the textFont of the stack & by inheritance
> the field, is Verdana, so I don't think that should be doing anything.
>
> Is anyone out there running a Japanese system that can give me any
> ideas? The reports have all come from Mac users so far, but I don't
> know if that is relevant. Is there a way to detect a Japanese system
> (or perhaps one where the default font is Unicode) and use "the long
> date" instead of the long system date if so?
>
> TIA,
> Sarah
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