Adding different language support to a GUI

[Bert]

I'm building a GUI and I want to add support for 12 languages. The problem I'm running into is say I have a radio control and I want to change the text depending on what language is being used. The characters being rendered are not what I expect. I'm saving my text strings in an INI file. 

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[languageSelect]
language=0
ENGLISH=Select this for English
FRENCH=Sélectionnez ceci pour le français
GERMAN=Wählen Sie dies für Deutsch aus.
CHINESE=选择此项以使用中文
HINDI=हिंदी के लिए इसे चुनें
SPANISH=Seleccione esta opción para español
ARABIC=اختر هذا للغة العربية
PORTUGUESE=Selecione isto para português
RUSSIAN=Выберите этот вариант для русского языка
JAPANESE=日本語にする場合はこれを選択してください
ITALIAN=Seleziona questa opzione per l'italiano
VIETNAMESE=Chọn mục này cho tiếng Việt

This is my script I'm using:

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#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
Global $sIniFile2 = @ScriptDir & "\VQData\settings.ini"
Global $defaultwintitle = "VollyQuizzer - Select your language"

$FormLS1     = GUICreate($defaultwintitle, 763, 323, 311, 365)
               GUISetFont(12, 400, 0, "MS Sans Serif")
$iniReadLS1  = IniRead($sIniFile2,"languageSelect","ENGLISH","English")
$RadioLS1    = GUICtrlCreateRadio($iniReadLS1, 24, 16, 290, 25)
$iniReadLS2  = IniRead($sIniFile2,"languageSelect","FRENCH","French")
$RadioLS2    = GUICtrlCreateRadio($iniReadLS2, 24, (16*3), 290, 25)
$iniReadLS3  = IniRead($sIniFile2,"languageSelect","GERMAN","German")
$RadioLS3    = GUICtrlCreateRadio($iniReadLS3, 24, (16*5), 290, 25)
$iniReadLS4  = IniRead($sIniFile2,"languageSelect","CHINESE","Chinese")
$RadioLS4    = GUICtrlCreateRadio($iniReadLS4, 24, (16*7), 290, 25)
$iniReadLS5  = IniRead($sIniFile2,"languageSelect","HINDI","Hindi")
$RadioLS5    = GUICtrlCreateRadio($iniReadLS5, 24, (16*9), 290, 25)
$iniReadLS6  = IniRead($sIniFile2,"languageSelect","SPANISH","Spanish")
$RadioLS6    = GUICtrlCreateRadio($iniReadLS6, 24, (16*11), 290, 25)

$iniReadLS7  = IniRead($sIniFile2,"languageSelect","ARABIC","Arabic")
$RadioLS7    = GUICtrlCreateRadio($iniReadLS7, 344, 16, 410, 25)
$iniReadLS8  = IniRead($sIniFile2,"languageSelect","PORTUGUESE","Portuguese")
$RadioLS8    = GUICtrlCreateRadio($iniReadLS8, 344, (16*3), 410, 25)
$iniReadLS9  = IniRead($sIniFile2,"languageSelect","RUSSIAN","Russian")
$RadioLS9    = GUICtrlCreateRadio($iniReadLS9, 344, (16*5), 410, 25)
$iniReadLS10 = IniRead($sIniFile2,"languageSelect","JAPANESE","Japanese")
$RadioLS10   = GUICtrlCreateRadio($iniReadLS10, 344, (16*7), 410, 25)
$iniReadLS11 = IniRead($sIniFile2,"languageSelect","ITALIAN","Italian")
$RadioLS11   = GUICtrlCreateRadio($iniReadLS11, 344, (16*9), 410, 25)
$iniReadLS12 = IniRead($sIniFile2,"languageSelect","VIETNAMESE","Vietnamese")
$RadioLS12   = GUICtrlCreateRadio($iniReadLS12, 344, (16*11), 410, 25)

$ButtonLS1   = GUICtrlCreateButton("Continue", 272, 256, 145, 41)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###

While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $nMsg
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $iniReadLS2
            $INIL1 = IniRead($sIniFile2,"languageSelect", "French1","Fail")
            $defaultwintitle = $INIL1


    EndSwitch
WEnd

When I run the script, this is the result (which is not what it should be). For example the Arabic (right column, top) is completely wrong. 

I'm thinking this is a Windows limitation (Character support) and I need a different approach. In any case my main script has a number of controls that I would like to be able to change the language to the operator's preference. 
If what I have in mind won't work, is there a different approach I could try? Not sure what to do here. Thanks. 

[Bert]

In doing more searching, I found a post where it suggested in SciTE to go file>Encoding> and making a change there. That didn't work. It made no difference. 

[Gianni]

In SciTE select UTF-8 encoding to save the script, while to save the .ini file with Notepad, select UTF-16 LE encoding

Edited 3 hours ago by Gianni

[MattyD]

For the Vietnamese to display correctly I also needed to change the font away from "MS Sans Serif"".

GUICtrlSetFont($RadioLS12, 12, $FW_NORMAL, 0, "Arial")

[ahmet]

Try saving ini file with UTF 8, but I am almost certain that it will not work. I can bot test that. If that fails there are is some ini file udf which should resolve that issue.