JP2008257436A - Multilingual display device and multilingual display method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multilingual display method for surely and easily converting real time and on-demand data into a plurality of multilingual types of display forms. <P>SOLUTION: This multilingual display device is composed of: a multilingual database 13 for storing the data of screen display content including every multilingual character code such as English, Thai, Chinese, and Japanese; a screen data generation part 14 for converting any multilingual character code into a character code corresponding to the selected language based on the data of the multilingual database, and for determining the aspect ratio of characters based on the number of characters posterior conversion, and for generating picture data matched with a display form by character data using its vector font; and a data display part 11 for displaying the generated screen data. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

The present invention relates to a multilingual display device and a multilingual display method capable of displaying a character string corresponding to multiple languages within a display frame in a display device such as a computer.

Some display devices, such as a conventional liquid crystal panel having a display function in multiple languages, can display the language selected by the user by switching the display language such as English, Japanese, or Chinese with a menu or the like. is there. In such a system, operability in various settings such as menu settings is improved for users in various language regions. Also, systems that can process displayed data in multiple languages are known, and some systems can handle data input in multiple languages at the same time.
For example, in relation to the technology of such a multilingual display method, Patent Document 1 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-163204) discloses a multilingual character input system that inputs characters of a plurality of languages from a keyboard. The computer includes a memory for storing language data including character font data, a key map, and a character conversion library for two languages. The language data is acquired from a server computer, and the input language is switched. What was done is described.
JP 2000-163204 A

However, in the conventional multilingual display system, an initial language for operation must be selected, and in some systems, when a language for operation is selected, a specific application program must be restarted. Don't be. Therefore, requesting restart of the multilingual system is cumbersome and inefficient when the language is frequently exchanged.
Furthermore, in such a multilingual system, the operator must know the language of the original text information to some extent, and it is difficult to give an instruction to convert to any language. In addition, a technique for estimating the language from the used code and character frequency used in the original text information is also considered, but there is also a problem that it is difficult to reliably estimate the language from the used code and character frequency between similar languages. It was.
In particular, in a system using a server computer as in Patent Document 1, it is common for a system developer to prepare processing screens and programs for the types of languages to be handled. There is a problem that not only a great amount of man-hours are required during the development period of the construction of the system corresponding to the system, but it also takes time to deal with users who use different languages.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide a multilingual display device and a multilingual display method capable of reliably and easily converting real-time and on-demand data into a plurality of language type display forms. It is said.

(1) A multilingual display device according to the present invention, which has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, stores data of screen display contents including character information for each multilingual language such as English, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, etc. Based on the language database and data stored in the multilingual database, character information in any of the multilingual is converted into character information corresponding to the selected language, and screen data matching the display form of the selected language is generated. A screen data generation unit and a data display unit for displaying the generated screen data are provided.

(2) In the multilingual display method using the multilingual display device of the present invention, the data displayed in a specific language is displayed in a selected language selected from multilingual languages such as English, Thai, Chinese, and Japanese. A multilingual display method of converting into a form and displaying it on a data display unit, the step of selecting a plurality of fields for each language that supports the display form, and corresponding to the selected field included in the display form Querying a multilingual database for data display characteristics, and switching and displaying each data in a display form that fits in each field of the data display section based on the data display characteristics. .

According to the present invention, since each data is switched to a display form in a language that fits in each field based on the data display characteristic corresponding to the selected field included in the display form, real-time and on-demand are displayed. Data can be reliably and easily converted into display forms of multiple language types. In this way, data such as a table created in Japanese or the like can be rewritten and displayed in an easy-to-read table corresponding to language display such as English, Thai, or Chinese.

The multilingual display device according to the present embodiment includes the multilingual database that stores screen display data including character codes for each multilingual language such as English, Thai, Chinese, and Japanese, and the multilingual database Character data using the vector font, by converting one of the multilingual character codes to a character code corresponding to the selected language based on the data, determining the aspect ratio of the character character based on the number of characters after conversion A screen data generation unit that generates screen data that matches the display form, and a data display unit that displays the generated screen data. Thus, using a multilingual display device capable of easily displaying the converted character information using a selected language selected from multilinguals, a communication terminal or computer equipped with such a display device Etc. can be provided. In addition, this mechanism eliminates the need to manually position the fields in each form in consideration of different language formats, and can maintain an easy-to-see display form. Note that the present invention can also be applied to a multilingual display system having a multi-display and switching to two or more language displays.

The language display method according to the present embodiment converts data displayed in a specific language into a display form of a selected language selected from multilingual languages such as English, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, etc. A multilingual display method for displaying in a section, the step of selecting a plurality of fields for each language supporting the display form, and inquiring a multilingual database for data display characteristics corresponding to each field included in the display form And a step of switching each data to a display form that is stored in each field of the data display unit based on the data display characteristics. As a result, the displayed data can be appropriately switched by a display form unique to each selected multi-language. That is, according to the display form of the selected language, the corresponding display field can be positioned and configured.

The multilingual display device of this embodiment can be applied to business systems such as accounting, customer management, shop list management, and the development thereof. Here, by unifying necessary definition information, and particularly by integrating information on form screens that tend to be complicated, it is possible to reduce the labor and cost of maintenance. In these business systems, database tables such as an SQL server and Oracle (trademark) can be easily and reliably created by setting a table definition related to the data. The multilingual display device of this embodiment will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a multilingual display device according to the first embodiment. As shown in the figure, the multilingual display device 10 according to the first embodiment includes a data display unit 11 including a liquid crystal monitor that displays various data in a business program such as customer management corresponding to multiple languages, and a keyboard on which a user inputs data. A data input unit 12 such as English, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, etc., a multilingual database 13 that stores data of screen display contents including character codes for each multilingual, and a user via the data input unit 12 Converts one of the selected multilingual character codes to a character code corresponding to the selected language, determines the character character aspect ratio based on the number of characters after conversion, and displays the character data using the vector font A control unit 15 having a screen data generation unit 14 that generates screen data matching the form in the data display unit 11; It has been made. Thereby, the converted character information is displayed on the data display unit 11 in an easy-to-read manner using a selected language selected from multilingual languages including Japanese, English, Chinese, Indonesian, Thai, and other languages. be able to.

The multilingual database 13 is a storage unit that is used by the control unit 15 and stores data such as a multilingual display program and its registration form, and stores display content data, dictionary data, font data, and the like in advance. The display content data is a screen display including character information, and is data indicating the content of a predetermined screen display. This display content data may indicate the display content of the entire screen, or may be display content displayed on a part of the screen. Multilingual data is used by converting between different supported languages, and the character code string of the selected language is associated with the character code string of each language.

The font data is a vector font that holds a character font as vector data, and includes font data for each supported language. The vector font is font data that holds feature points of each character as vector data, and pixel data can be generated for various sizes without degrading display quality.

The control unit 15 generates screen data as pixel data based on display content data including character codes, font data, and the like. Further, the control unit 15 determines a selected language from among multiple languages based on an operation from the data input unit 12. The language selected by the user is converted using the data stored in the multilingual database 13 so that the screen data is properly displayed on the data display unit 11.

Such screen data generation processing is realized by the screen data generation unit 14 as software executed in the control unit 15. In the screen data generation unit 14, the language selected through the data input unit 12 by the user's operation is set as the user language, and the screen data is reconstructed.

The display content data includes image data and layout data in addition to character information such as a character code. Image data consists of pixel data such as illustrations, display frames, ruled lines, etc., and layout data consists of arrangement information related to these images and characters.
Thus, the conversion processing to the selected user language is performed based on the display content data of the multilingual database 13. That is, referring to the dictionary data, the character code is converted into a character code corresponding to the user language and output to the data display unit 11 as a character character.

The character character is generated by determining a character size based on the character code and generating character data based on the character size. Here, the size of the character displayed on the data display unit 11 is determined based on the layout data read from the multilingual database 13 and the number of characters after the conversion process. At that time, the display height and display width of the character are independently determined.

That is, the character size determined by the screen data generation unit 14 includes an aspect ratio that is a ratio between the character height and the character width. Note that the number of characters displayed on the data display unit 11 usually matches the number of character codes, but a special language in which one character is composed of a plurality of character codes is designated as the user language. The two do not match. In the case of such a special language, the number of characters after conversion is obtained by analyzing the converted character code string prior to determining the character size, and the character size is determined based on the number of characters. When no layout data is given, the character size can be determined based on the screen size of the data display unit 11 including a liquid crystal monitor.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the multilingual display method according to the second embodiment, FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a multilingual definition setting screen in the multilingual display method, and FIG. 4 is a form definition setting in the multilingual display method. It is explanatory drawing of a screen. The multilingual display method will be described below with reference to the drawings.
First, in the first step S1, each data of the designated form definition, form detail definition, and form detail definition multilingual definition (multilingual definition) is read by menu selection.
In the next step S2, it is determined whether or not the form specification multilingual definition (for example, refer to the multilingual definition in FIG. 3) is changed. If there is no change, the process proceeds to step S3. move on.
In step S3 when there is no change in the form detail multilingual definition, the display of the form detail multilingual is set by the position information and size information registered in the form detail multilingual definition, and the process proceeds to step S4.

In step S4, the data portion size of the label portion size can be modified without changing the program (without compiling) as necessary.

In step S5, the row change information, the column position information, and the size information are stored in the form detailed multilingual definition by the layout change function, if necessary, and the process returns to step S1.

On the other hand, in step S6 when it is determined in step S2 that there is a change in the form detail multilingual definition, the automatic placement engine executes the automatic placement processing routine for each language consisting of steps S10 to S12, and then step S4. The process is transferred to.

In the first step S10 in the automatic arrangement processing routine (step S6), the label part maximum width and the data part maximum width corresponding to the font size for the column for which automatic width adjustment is specified for the column of display items. Is calculated.

In the next step S11, the X-axis arrangement positions of all label parts and data parts on the same line according to the label part width, data part width, calculated label part maximum width, and data part maximum width corresponding to the registered font size. To decide.
Then, the Y-axis arrangement positions of the label part and the data part are determined based on the line size and the Y-axis margin size corresponding to the font size registered in the form definition (step S12). In this form definition, the form to be displayed on the screen of the display device or computer monitor can be set as shown in FIG. 4, and the registered contents include the form type, display position, display size, font, color, etc. Contains items.

In the subsequent step S13, the size and position of the list portion are determined based on the determined X and Y axis arrangement and form size.
In the last step S14, all the determined position, size information and position information are stored in the form specification multilingual definition.

The business system according to the second embodiment can be roughly configured to include, for example, the following steps (1) to (3).
(1) Table setting: The database table is created by setting the table definition.
(2) Automatic form setting: A template form is created by using an automatic form creation function based on table information.
(3) Completion image: When the automatic form setting step is completed, the image data including the introduction information of the store such as a map is created by editing the form data.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing examples of Japanese display, English display, and Chinese display in form setting. In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, the display size and the like are adjusted for each language display field by screen operation, and the display can be switched between Japanese display, English display, and Chinese display as appropriate.

The multilingual display method of this embodiment can handle resources (information resources) for centrally managing add-on programs using table definitions and form definitions. In addition, the system to which the multilingual display method is applied has an engine composed of a form generation function, a multilingual conversion function, an SQL syntax automatic generation function, and a database interface function, and Japanese and English. Chinese, Indonesian, Thai, and other languages can be set by the user, and there is no need to provide a separate application for each language, and no restart for switching is required.

In addition, on the editing screen, it is possible to edit the registered data such as displaying a plurality of data according to the extraction conditions. The detailed data of the active record can also be displayed, and the edit screen can also be displayed by combining variations such as tabs, cards, and relations.

The new screen in this editing screen is roughly divided into a multiple record input new screen and a single record input new screen. In the multiple record input new screen, there are form types that can be newly entered in one table, and form types that can be newly entered in two tables that have two relations, and only for child tables that have two relations. There are form types that can be entered. Furthermore, in the single record input new screen, there is a form type that can be newly entered into only one record of one table, and this type of form type can be edited, and complete exclusive control in units of records is possible.

On the new screen in the edit screen, the registered data can be displayed according to the extraction condition and used for data selection, and can also be displayed as a combo box. In addition, a dialog screen can be called to execute a process using a user add-on.
Furthermore, the child screen of the parent / child screen can be set as a child screen of the editing screen having a relation relationship, a detail side screen of the header / detail screen, and a child screen of the result input.

The present invention can be widely applied to the field of display methods for computer systems that support multiple languages. As a result, real-time and on-demand data can be reliably and easily converted into display forms of a plurality of language types. That is, it is possible to provide a system that can rewrite and display data such as a table created in Japanese on an easy-to-read table corresponding to language display such as English, Thai, and Chinese.

1 is a configuration diagram of a multilingual display device of Example 1. FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a multilingual display method according to the second embodiment. It is explanatory drawing of the setting screen of the multilingual definition in the same multilingual display method. It is explanatory drawing of the setting screen of form definition in the same multilingual display method. It is explanatory drawing which shows the Japanese display, English display, and Chinese display of the form setting in the same multilingual display method.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Multilingual display apparatus 11 Data display part 12 Data input part 13 Multilingual database 14 Screen data generation part 15 Control part

Claims (2)

A multilingual database that stores data of screen display contents including character information for each multilingual language such as English, Thai, Chinese, and Japanese, and any of the multilingual based on the data stored in the multilingual database Converting the character information into character information corresponding to the selected language to generate screen data matching the display form of the selected language, and a data display unit displaying the generated screen data. A multilingual display device characterized by comprising. A multilingual display method in which data displayed in a specific language is converted into a display form of a selected language selected from multilingual languages such as English, Thai, Chinese, and Japanese and displayed on a data display unit. ,
Selecting a plurality of fields for each language that supports the display form;
Querying a multilingual database for data display characteristics corresponding to a selected field included in the display form;
And a method of displaying each data by switching to a display form that fits in each field of the data display section based on the data display characteristics.