VB6 program works only with Regional setting set to English

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Hi Everyone,

One of my customers lives in Taiwan and can only make my program work if he changes his Regional and Language Options to English from the Simplifies Chinese that his computer is normally set to use. Switching back and forth is very inconvenient for him.

Is there a way that I can compile my program so that it works with the Regional Options set to Simplified Chinese?

I set my PC Regional Options to Simplified Chinese, compiled the program and emailed it to my customer and it still does not work unless he sets his computer to use English.

The program communicates with some custom hardware using the RS232 serial port at 115,200 BAUD. All works fine with the language option set to English but when trying to communicate with the hardware with the Regional Options/Language set to Simplified Chinese some of the serial data arrives back at the PC with the wrong values/data and the VB6 program ends up with error messages such as Run-time Error '6' - Overflow. The overflow error message is obviously due to the incorrect values being used for some mathematical calculations (such as dividing by a number that is supposed to be positive but comes back incorrectly as a zero).

I'm lost and don't know what to try. Any hints from you more experienced programmers?

Cheers,

Regards,
Bert

Bert van den Berg
New Zealand