Yeah, great fun explaining that to your boss... I had the same problem when
suddenly a major client wanted their corporate CD-ROM in Chinese a couple of
years back, and they weren't prepared to pay for all the extra work required to
work around the lack of Unicode support... Really fun getting slapped around
for using a MM product for which you have nothing to do with it's lack of
up-to-dateness...
Chris.
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Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens nik crosina
Verzonden: vrijdag 30 juni 2006 11:43
Aan: Lingo programming discussion list
Onderwerp: Re: <lingo-l> Unicode Update
Hi Chris,
Mentioning the 5 billion or so people who can't use Director easily or
BE REACHED easily with any Director made product is a very good point.
I have developed a training application that organises a huge content
library of video clips, PowerPoint's, text docs, images, etc. and that
can be used to create tailor made course for clients, and burn a DVD
with it literally within minutes.
Easy to use even for filed based sales people who use their laptop
only to keep in touch with head office from the road side.
Hugely popular with the middle and upper management as it saves them
hundreds of thousand of pounds or dollars or whatever the currency you
choose...
So far rolled out in Europe. Now they want to take it global.
This is a training product that could find itself in every Hilton
Hotel, Mac Donald, Pizza Hut, Burger King, WalMart, Sainsbury,
Radisson, etc (training cleaning staff)
I get emails from people in Malaysia, China, Thailand, India, Brazil,
Czech Republic, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Pakistan,
etc., etc. basically saying one thing:
WHEN CAN WE START USING THIS AS IT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED TO QUICKLY
TRAIN OUR PEOPLE.
What do I have to tel my Boss? ...Shame the global roll out was not an
original requirement, because Director doesn't do UNICODE, so I got to
do it all over again. ... It only took me 6 month to get it all
done....
It is hugely frustrating, that with Director we have such a brilliant
development tool that allows you to work in a 1000 different ways,
that has a huge third party developers following with its Xtras, that
has been around for way more than 10 years...
... but can not be used on a global basis!
Very frustrating!
*sigh*
Nik
On 6/30/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've been naggin' about this for 5 years... I've stopped counting on it long
> since... real great customer support :) (guess the five (?) billion people
> that don't use friggin' ASCII aren't supposed to be that important a target
> according to the director marketing reps)
>
> Chris.
>
>
>
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> Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens nik crosina
> Verzonden: donderdag 29 juni 2006 11:28
> Aan: Director - Shockwave - and Flash Game Production; Lingo programming
> discussion list
> Onderwerp: <lingo-l> Unicode Update
>
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone heared an update on how the Unicode implementation in
> Director is coming along? (Tom Higgins; are you reading this?)
>
> I got to start implementing Unicode support to our global training
> tool soon and would not want to move it to Flash or another app.
>
> Is it such an issue, hard to code, difficult to support, or what is
> exactly the reason that this is not in place by now? Isn't there a
> tremendous lost opportunity for martketing Director into countries
> that do not follow the currently implemented character set?
>
> Having lived and worked in this area for years (amongst other teaching
> Director), I am thinking mainly of Asia Pacific, but it is hard to
> even get proper character set support for Polish, Czech, etc.
>
> Does anyone know whether there is a firm plan or commitment to this
> issue from Adobe?
>
> Thanks!!
>
>
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