East Eoropean Language

[Dario HR]

Hi !
I live in a little east european country called Croatia. I've tryed your pos program and i find it GREAT!!!
I have only 2 questiones. (sorry for my bad english)

1. Does your software support east european characters? (code page 852)
I need this when i print the receipt!

2. Is there any possibility for me to change the language of the PURCHASE SCREEN ? (I use to learn very fast all about programing).
Or if you want i can sen you a translation of the purchase screen in a *.doc or *.xls format.

I know that maybe i pretend to much,but this can be good for you to.

Thanks!

Regards, Dario Sinozic.

[Dale Harris]

Dario HR,

Currently the POS program is only available in English. The program does have a feature whereby the language printed on the receipts can be changed. Use the "Receipt language" feature in the POSCONFG.EXE program to change the language of the receipts. However this only applies to languages that use the latin alphabet.

Eventually the "Receipt language" feature will be expanded to allow the language of the entire program to be changed. However this will be a hugely difficult feature to impliment because it will require rewriting the entire program. Every label, instruction, and anything else that is presented in text in the entire program will have to be converted into variables and each variable will be a different length than the static text that is there now. And since I am not perfect, every change will introduce the possibility of a bug being added to the program. I estimate that doing the program rewrite will take 6 months to a year assuming that I do nothing else.

And this is only to allow users to translate the program into different languages, I will not be doing the translating because the only language I speak is English. Who knows when someone will translate this into some of the less popular languages that are out there.

Unfortunatly I have not even started because there are other, much quicker features, that people really need. I have no idea of when I will be able to even start this.

Changing the language in the source code of the program is not an option. I tried this once with a Spanish language version and it was a nightmare. It took two months to do it and then for the next several months I tried to maintain two separate version of the program, one in English and the other in Spanish. Everytime I made a change in the English version I had to add it to the Spanish version and then debug both. In the Spanish version I could never tell where I was in the source code because every string was in Spanish. Eventually I just gave up.

Sorry,