Including Russian Cyrillic characters in VB-code

Hi,

My app supports dynamic switching between various languages. All translated texts are available through external language files, that are loaded when the specific language is selected.

The welcome screen that is displayed the first time that the app is started allows the initial selection of the language (as part of various settings). As soon as the user selects a language, all texts/controls in the dialog are displayed in the selected language. To make this happen instantly, the texts on the dialog (5 strings for each available language) are included as constants in the code. This works perfectly fine with western languages as English, Dutch, German, Italian, and French.

Now I’m trying to include Russian with the Cyrillic character set. Loading the texts from a file and the applying to all controls works fine, obviously with all the required settings of fonts and character sets for each control, but I can’t figure out how to include the welcome-screen strings as constants in the VB-code.

Is this possible at all? If so, any suggestions on how to do that?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Regards,
Erwin