Has there been any advancement on the Unicode situation since the posting listed below? We are courting a European company that is currently not happy with the fact that there current provider cannot handle the character sets for most of their clients (Eastern Europe and Asia). We would like to pick them up, but the sticking point is being able to handle their datasets. Has FusionPro come any closer to handling Unicode, double-byte or any other data encodings?
Thanks, David A. Sweet Web/Graphic Designer HKM Direct Market Comm. > Hi Ilia, > > We are currently working on enhancing support for Unicode in FusionPro, > and expect to have a release with better Unicode capabilities sometime > next year. For now, however, FusionPro assumes that all text it > processes is single-byte ASCII, in Latin-1 encoding on Windows, and in > Mac Roman encoding on Mac. We do not currently support UTF-8 or any > other Unicode-type encodings. > > If you have "8-bit" or "extended ASCII" characters in your input data > file or any other external resources, you need to either make sure that > they are in the appropriate single-byte encoding for your platform > (Latin-1 encoding on Windows, or in Mac Roman encoding on Mac), or use > entities. You can look at the entity.def file in the installation > folder (C:\Program Files\Printable\FusionPro) on Windows, or the > entity.mac.def file in the <Library/Application > Support/Printable/FusionPro> folder on Mac, to see which entities are > supported, and their corresponding ASCII codes. > > Text typed into the variable text editor, however, should compose > correctly, because any extended characters there should be converted to > the appropriate entities (at least any entities in the entity.def file) > behind the scenes. (You should be able to see this if you do a "View > Source" on a Formatted Text Resource.) If this is not working, please > send a sample showing the problem to Support. > > Thanks, > Dan +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- FusionPro 5.0 Now Available! Variable text on a curve and soft drop-shadows for variable text LIMITED TIME upgrade offer of $299 per license for current customers: http://fusionpro.printable.com/store/upgrade New licenses available for $599 each at: http://fusionpro.printable.com/store/ All FusionPro 5.0 customers to receive FusionPro 5.1 with Adobe Acrobat 8 and InDesign CS3 support when released for FREE. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -- Users of FusionPro Desktop have unlimited free email support. Contact Printable Support at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- View FusionPro Knowledge Base, FusionPro Samples at www.printable.com/vdp/desktop.htm -- You are currently subscribed to fusionpro as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Note: All e-mail sent to or from this address will be received or otherwise recorded by the e-mail recipients of this forum. It is subject to archival, monitoring or review by, and/or disclosure to someone other than the recipient. Our privacy policy is posted on www.printplanet.com --
