Sounds like what you are looking for is a way for LabVIEW to display multiple languages at once, more precisely Unicode. Unfortunately, LabVIEW strings/listboxes, etc do not support Unicode currently, this means that displaying Chinese text in a LabVIEW string control is impossible, unless you have set your machine up to use the Chinese locale.
LabVIEW strings use the system's multibyte encoding for strings. On the same machine, given different options in the control panel (assuming Windows here) you can have LabVIEW display almost any text that you want. Where you will get into trouble however, is displaying multiple languages simulataneosly. That is, it may not be possible to show some characters given a specific setup. For example, LabVIEW cannot display Chinese characters when setup to use US English, and cannot show special charcters in German, if you are current setup to Chinese.
Also, if the spreadsheet happens to have Unicode characters in it, LabVIEW may not be able to display it at all.
Depending on what you want to do, there are a number of workarounds to this problem. If you are interested, just reply to this post.
Jeff Peters
LabVIEW R & D
