08/2005 Creating Foreign Language Texts with Windows 2000/ 2003/ XP (TX2)
1 Introduction
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SINUMERIK 840D sl/840D/840Di/810D Commissioning CNC Part 2 (HMI) (IAM) – 08/2005 Edition
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• The means used to create the text are to be as simple as possible, i.e.
especially without the need to install any additional software.
• For the purposes of this guide, it is assumed that you have installed Microsoft
Word 2000 (or a later version) and are familiar with using it.
Text types for HMI Embedded and HMI Advanced
The following text types can be changed in the individual systems:
Table 1-1
Text types Systems
Alarm texts
Adding texts for the user interface
Application texts for all operating areas
incl. softkey texts
HMI Embedded
Alarm texts
Adding texts for the user interface
Texts for the Help function in the editor
Machine data
Softkey texts for all operating areas
HMI Advanced
1.3 Language families
A language family is a group of languages for which Microsoft operating systems
use the same code page. Microsoft uses the term "language group"
Table 1-2 Language families
Language family Windows
code page
Language
Central European 1250 Albanian, Croat, Polish, Romanian, Serbian (Latin),
Slovakian, Slovenian, Czech, Hungarian
Cyrillic 1251 Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic),
Ukrainian, White Russian
Western 1252 German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian,
Icelandic, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese,
Swedish, Spanish
Greek 1253 Greek
Turkish 1254 Turkish
Baltic 1257 Estonian, Lettish, Lithuanian
Japanese 932 Japanese
Chinese 936 Simplified Chinese
Korean 949 Korean
Chinese 950 Standard Chinese (Traditional Chinese)