In Excel 2010, I have a worksheet containing Japanese text. There is no problem editing, or displaying this. When I grab the value of a cell containing Japanese and use Debug.Print to display it in the Immediate Window it appears as ???? This would be a familiar issue if I was dealing with a browser. I would just make sure everything was in UTF-8 encoding. I have Japanese installed on my English Windows and that's all working fine. In Excel I tried to set the default language to Japanese. I changed the editor font to Arial Unicode but so far I still get question marks. I contacted Microsoft. I was passed from one person to another, but they couldn't help. They offered to pass me to a Technical support person who would charge me 500 US dollars!
How can I debug Japanese values in an English version of Excel using the Immediate Window?
The VBA development environment depends on the Windows "system locale" setting to tell it what character set to use. I got it to work using
Windows Vista (English)
Excel 2010 (English)
by going into the "Regional and Language Options" section of the Windows Control Panel and setting the system locale to "Japanese (Japan)"
After my system rebooted I could see Japanese characters in the VBA Immediate Window:
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I can't set Sheet.Name property in Japanese. Event file name also displays in maybe Chinese? All display well in Excel.
How can I set up the VBA editor to work with Japanese?
I changed region to Japanese.
Finally, I got to the right point.
this post is in Japanese but by picture so not hard to see that in Admitration we must uncheck [Header: World Wide language support ... use Unicode UTF-8]
maybe as #stifin mentioned, it is about wide character.
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How to enable users to type Unicode characters in a web application? More specific, my users need to type the Dutch IJ and ij (Unicode: IJ and ij).
So I read Wikipedia and related sources, to find out it is perfectly fine to type those characters in Microsoft Word and Wordpad using ALT codes 0306 and 0307. In notepad however I get 2 and 3 instead. I was thinking this had something to do with simple notepad not being able to cope with multibyte encodings. But even Firefox 58 and Internet Explorer show 2 and 3 instead of the Unicode characters, when the webpage has Unicode enabled and <html lang="nl"> set. The page is rendered with the "Arial MS Unicode" font just like Word, to be sure that as much as possible Unicode characters are displayed correctly. My test machine runs Windows 8.1 with Internet Explorer set to Dutch, with also a Dutch version of Firefox.
So now users copy and paste from Word and Wordpad to their browsers which is pretty cumbersome. And obviously this method does not work on most computers (laptops, mobile phones) nowadays, because they don't have a numeric pad on their keyboard.
Others have similar issues. There is even a pragmatic tool to work around the problem.
It appears that typing ALT codes with a leading 0 has worked in the past on Windows XP and 2003, but setting a registry value for this to work on all clients is not an acceptable solution.
Isn't there a common solution to this human to browser barrier? Some JS API perhaps?
I can't write arabic strings in VBA code in excel, it shows as weird characters. Tried it on many machines with excel 2013 or 2010, on windows 8 or windows 7, with or without arabic proofing tools installed. Arabic language is already installed on all machines, system locale is arabic. There's no problem typing arabic characters on excel worksheets or even MS word but not in VBA code.
in VB Editor:
1- click Tools
2- select Options...
3- click Editor Format
4- change font to Courier New (Arabic)
5- click OK
now you can write in both English and Arabic
I hope this will solve your problem
In Windows XP:
> Control Panel
> Regional and Language Options
> Advanced Tab
> Select Arabic (depending on your country) You will be asked to insert the Windows CD, insert it and then browse to the I386 Folder then press ok.
> restart the PC and it should work now fine.
I beleve it's the same on Windows 7, the whole problem is in the non-unicode programs section set it to Arabic.
In win 10, you must change your system locale to match your language. You can find it here:
1- Press win key or click on it
2- Type region and click on it when windows finds it
3- Choose administrative tab
4- Under the language for non-unicode programs you will find "change system locale" key
5- A restart would be required
I have a VBA project in Excel 2003.
This VBA project was written in Russian using Cyrillic encoding, so all the comments and messages are unreadable on my English OS (WindowsXP).
so the code on Russian machine looking like (OK):
Sub Select_I()
'Выделяет по текущей ячейке "построчный" диапазон для ввода данных по объекту
become on mine (NOT OK)
Sub Select_I()
'Âûäåëÿåò ïî òåêóùåé ÿ÷åéêå "ïîñòðî÷íûé" äèàïàçîí äëÿ ââîäà äàííûõ ïî îáúåêòó
Is there a way to "indicate" to the VBA editor what encoding to use?
I've found a workaround for me - when copy-paste Russian text from VBA editor to somewhere else in Windows and keyboard at that moment is in Russian layout, then pasted Russian symbols are displayed correctly.
Try the following (I cannot test this very easily but it should work):
Control Panel --> Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options --> Regional and Language Options --> Advanced
and set the language for non-Unicode programs to the appropriate language (Russian it seems in your case).
I have a very simple Excel Addin build it in Visual Studio 2008 for Excel 2003, which creates a toolbar with some buttons.
When I debug it, with System Format set to "English (United States)" it works great, without problems.
However, this addin is going to be used with System Format set to "French (France)" too, and when I try to debug my addin under this configuration, the toolbar (which is created by the addin) is not being shown.
While I'm debugging I can see that the methods that create the toolbar are executed and the code returns fine, yet I can't see anything in Excel, and if I switch back the format to English it works again.
Does anyone know which could be the reason?
I had a similar problem with an add-in that I built for Excel 2000. Although the tool bar would show, nothing was on the toolbar. I was able to correct the issue by downloading the
office multilanguage pack 2003.
Here is a link to it, assuming you do not already have this installed it may be worth a shot.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ork2003/HA011402201033.aspx
In the end, there was a problem related with the decimal separator, which changes for French language, and a validation that I was doing in my code, I missed that part when debugging, thanks for the answers anyway.