Question

The Problem in Short:
Localized text works perfect on my development machine(windows 7) but NOT when the app is deployed to some other machine(Win XP).

Details:
I am writing a small, single form app. It must display text in Hindi. Below is my form in the Default Language.

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Here it is in Hindi:

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I have the Following code in the constructor of Form1

    public Form1()
    {
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("hi-IN");
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("hi-IN");
        InitializeComponent();
    }

It works absolutely fine on my dev machine(Win 7). But when deployed to another machine(win xp) it looks like this. All the text in HINDI is shown as squares:
Form when Run in win XP

Please Guide through this guys.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Without seeing the screenshots, it’s really difficult to say. But if you are seeing squares it seems like the Hindi fonts are not installed on the machine. The squares appear because the character set cannot be found. Your localized application, I think, is working just fine.