oneclub77

There have been a lot of troubles relating Japanese characters and not all of them have been fixed yet. I have been using the download version of BBO. At first, some of the Japanese characters were not correctly displayed. Then no Japanese characters could be used and then they became abe to be used. Now perhaps all the Japanese characters are rightly displayed in chatt. But not in alert explanation box or automatical messages or tournament explanations. Even now, some of the characters in the alert explanation box cause the break-down of the talbe. The web version of BBO could not send Japanese to the table at first. But now that is fixed. The troubles have been gradually fixed but it takes a long time. For now, we need to avoid the the trouble by not making the scene of the trouble. Take care not to put in the alert explanatin box the characters except alphabets and numerals. Do not play in the tournaments where they use characters not in 7-bit ASCII code. All we can do is to report the trouble to BBO support and wait patiently for them to fix it.

<<Suggestion for the chatting in non-English languages>> I'd like to suggest the following: Let the user select the display font from the ones he (or she) has installed on his (or her) PC. (Preferably only for chatting and explanation of alert and claim.) Then chatting in any language will be possible among the players who have installed that font on their PC's. Some of the letters may be displayed improperly for unknown reasons. (Perhaps due to the subroutine libray of the developing tools.) But most of the time chatting will work all right. In case of "Japanese" on the previous version, some of the letters were not displayed. "Dots" were displayed instead. But it was far better than chatting in roman letters. I think it is the same for "Chinese," "Korean", etc., if user can select the display font. I'd like you to take this suggerstion into consideration for the upgrade of the BBO program in the near future.

We are having a little inconvenience from the latest upgrade of the program, in which the "Japanese" language option was omitted. We are starting a small tournament with HCBL on BBO. Not all of us use English whlile playing Bridge. In Japan, forutunately, most of the "Bridge terms" are virtually English, though written in different characters. So there is no need to translate these terms into Japanese. There is no need to translate the messages from the program, either. Someone will tell the meaning to someone who does not understand. The problem is that we cannnot display our chat in Japanese characters. Some of us have difficulty in asking and explaining the meaning of alerted bids in English. And Japanese sentences written in roman letters are difficult to read. This may scare away some people from our tournaments. Could we downgrade the program to the former version? The former version also had some difficulies in displaying Japanese characters. Some of the letters were not displayed. But most of the letter were rightly displayed and it caused virtually no problems for chatting in Japanese. Or could we have a new version of the program which allows "chatting in Japanese characters" in the near future?