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Delphi 7 cyrillic characters not showing correctly

i recently asked (and paid) for translation of my Delphi app to support Macedonian (Cyrillic font) support. I posted text to translate to my contracted translator, she sent me back translated strings. The text was extracted from all my .dfm and .pas files

when i replaced the original text with cyrillic translation, i can open .dfm fies also .pas files in my favourite Notepad++ (or notepad) , and i see translated characters correctly.

When i open these files in Delphi (as dpr file) , i see something like this:

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Please someone tell me how to convert/display these strings in Delphi correctly. I am using Macedonian regional settings, but it not helped me with this problem.

PS: Yes I am still using Delphi 7 because i love it / purchased this version.

UPDATE

Original text in Delphi: original: ПОДГОТВИ КУТИИ ЗРДРУГИТЕ ЦЕÐТРÐЛИ

Correct text: ПОДГОТВИ КУТИИ ЗА ДРУГИТЕ ЦЕНТРАЛИ

I noticed, when i change ParentFont property to false and font set to Verdana and Cyrillic (RUSSIAN_CHARSET) , then i copy/paste cyrillic text, it shows normally in Delphi

Solution

  • OK so i SOLVED that!

    The solution is multi step one, and Notepad++ is needed:

    1st step: Replace all fonts in .dfm with (for example) Verdana , or some font that allows Cyrillic support

    2nd step: Replace all ParentFont = False to ParentFont = True

    3rd step: In notepad++ Choose: Encoding -> Convert to ANSI

    that's all, do this for all .dfm and .pas file (only 3rd step)

    i am happy to not Listened David Heffernan and not gave up!