Languages, keyboard maps and ask dialogs

[Lars Brehmer]

I seem to have one last language-character problem begging for a  
solution.

No one came up with a way to switch to the correct the keyboard map  
when a field is clicked in or otherwise active, so I guess I will  
have to live with that. I did find out something interesting through  
experimentation.  At least with my app running in Windows, it DOES  
actually switch when a Russian field is clicked in, but when an  
Estonian field is clicked in, it switches to the English keyboard  
map.  I assume this is because the machine I use was purchased in the  
US and there seems to be no way to ged rid of that keyboard.  If I  
delete it and make the default map Estonian and click in ANY field  
with Roman/Latin mapping, the English keyboard magically reappears  
and is selected.  I will try this on a locally bought machine that  
doesn't have English as the default keyboard map, which just might  
work. If notl, at the least the Russian fields seem to work.  I  
suppose that most people who use different mappings on a regular  
basis are used to this problem, so I guess in the end it is not a big  
deal.  On the Mac, it never switches to Russian.  Not really a  
problem because 98% of potential users here have Windows machines,  
just a little frustrating for me working with it :-(

Now to the last problem.  No matter what I try with useUnicode,  
uniencode, unidecode etc. I can't get an ask dialog to work with  
Russian.  All I want is to ask a user's name and put it into a field.

The textFont of the field is Geneva,Russian

So far the ask dialog is in Estonian.  It asks for your name, and  
when you use the Russian keyboard map and type in a name, it shows up  
fine, in Russian in the name field.  But I'd prefer to ask in  
Russian, but can't get Russian in the ask dialog.  I have tried  
storing the question in a separate field, and as a custom property  
and in both cases tried every combination of uniEncode and uniDecode  
that works in other aspects of this project.  I saw Sarah's post  
about the Danish .lproj being useful.  Is this where I should be  
looking, because I have no idea what that is, how it works or how to  
implement it.  Is there anything else i should be trying?  I am once  
again really stumped here!

Cheers,


Lars