PT Application List Boxes, Check Boxes, and Text Boxes

You do not need to translate list box, check box, and text box controls, but you need to be aware of the following globalization issues:

• Check boxes do not require resizing.
• The length of the data that appears in text boxes and list boxes can vary by locale and may require wider controls to display fully. Summary of HTML AutoLayout Rules describes how to provide user interface elements that adjust vertically and horizontally to accommodate text.
• Text boxes that display information with an ntext data type in the Eval database require additional considerations. SQL Server 7.0 imposes a limit of 1,073,741,823 characters on ntext columns; however, in practical terms, this data type has no size limit. To allow users to enter as much information as the database definition allows, these text boxes have more than one line. Because text can wrap, you need to make sure that line breaks are correct. You cannot assume that all languages separate words by spaces; for example, Japanese does not use spaces between words.