>Does anyone have any links to good resources or advice to give ? Avoid, if possible :)
Make sure you encode your XML as UTF-8, if possible, write a good schema for your data format (this is not easy) and if file size is a serious consideration(which it always is), I'd recommend either using device fonts, or if that's not acceptable for aesthetic reasons, use the dreaded shared font libraries. This is almost definitely going to cause you much pain and suffering, unless you can publish to flash 8, which seems to fix most of the associated problems with it. Consider making or utilizing an existing component framework to handle textfields - the main objective is to ensure a single point of failure for fonts - ideally there should be only 1 textfield, or one class which creates text, that is responsible for all glyph embedding. If you have non-latin characters, make sure you use fonts which actually *have* those characters in them - some fonts don't include extended character sets. Check out Ivan Dembicki's shared font manager: http://www.sharedfonts.com/ ASV is immensely useful for isolating problems with missing font glyphs http://www.buraks.com/asv/ SwfMill is worth looking into for creating font libraries, as it will give you a level of control greater than that in the IDE. http://iterative.org/swfmill/ I could write a book on this subject, to be honest - there's so much stuff that can go wrong. But I've found that having a single point of failure for font glyphs is the number one priority. After that, the most likely thing to break is the XML, which is why a strict schema will be very helpful. Possibly consider using something like ripple to structure your XML, as this will also help you to create a non-flash alternative, which will be indexable by google, and give you a starting point for the format of the XML: http://osflash.org/ripple/data_structure Anyway, I'm going to stop now, because this whole topic fills me with dread. Good luck! Alias On 10/25/05, daniel clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been approached to put together a site which will ultimately have 10 > language variations (some of which dont use the latin alphabet). > > Were thinking XML driven content for a start, but what are the major > pitfals > to look out for when putting a multilanguage site togehter. I've done some > top level research and figure theres goingto be issues with character sets > etc. > > Does anyone have any links to good resources or advice to give ? > > Thanks in advance > > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
