Comments on: Months of the World

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:59:00 +0000

Thanks for all this folks - good to know you're there to look up when I need you. Excellent resource.

Ben

By: Serhiy Kravtsov

Serhiy Kravtsov — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:32:00 +0000

Does anyone know what mean [$-F800]? Does it mean default or system culture
or something like that? Because I couldn't find such value in the table of
culture id's and resulting string depends on my local settings.

Thanks

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:59:00 +0000

Chinese - Taiwan 0404

[$-404]e"."mm"."dd , it is Taiwan time format

Chinese - People's Republic of China 0804

"[DBNum2]G/General" displays 1234 as ??????? (These ara Chinese character)

"[DBNum2][$-804]G/General" displays 1234 as ??????? (These ara Chinese character)

The difference is the 5th Chinese character, [DBNum2][$-804] shows the correct Traditional Chinese writing for number 3.

By: Beate Schmitz

Beate Schmitz — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:06:00 +0000

Hi,

if you are interested: Here you can download a multilingual calendar using this technique:

multilingual.zip

It was the christmas-special of our leading formular-page in Germany.

Best regards

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:35:00 +0000

Awk – a typo in my own name!
…mrt

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:34:00 +0000

Rob -

Still running XL2000/Windows 2000 until the lease expires this summer.

...Best, Micahel

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:50:00 +0000

Rob and Michael,

I don't know if this is help, hindrance, not connected or silly, but I noticed date formats work "strangely" with multilanguage packs.

For example, I was using an "English" version of Excel, but months still showed up as Japanese (My OS is Japanese)

Ross told me to change my regional settings with the Control Panel and all was solved.

Given the OS and default regional settings, this probably makes sense, but it also does funny things to the keyboard if I don't set it back to Japanese when finished.

By: Johan

Johan — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:57:00 +0000

Sweet! This is something I have been thinking about many times, working in a multilingual environment. Thanks for solving this problem.

By the way, this being my first post here, I just want to say great site!

By: Rob van Gelder

Rob van Gelder — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:06:00 +0000

Michael,

I've tested this on Excel 2002 and Excel 2003. I dont have early versions to test it on.

What version of Excel do you run?

Rob

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:30:00 +0000

I tried to reproduce the spreadsheet and must be missing something. I don't get any variations as are shown in the graphic (all I get are Jan/Feb/Mar for everywhere), and don't have a Locale dropdown box.

Is there something else to set/unset?
...best, Michael