> AFAIK Asian language fonts are double byte which director doesn't
support.

More accurate than most, Brad ^_^

Here goes Kerry, chasing the localization goose again. Please to stifle
the groans ^_^

English, German, and French Director don't support anything except ISO
8859.1 (Latin 1), which corresponds to the Windows-standard ANSI.
Multibyte fonts may or may not work--it's hit or miss. If you want to
use multibyte fonts, it's best to build your projector on Japanese or
Korean Director, on Japanese, Chinese, or Korean Windows/Mac.

CCJK (Japanese, Korean, and the two versions of Chinese) are multibyte.
That's close to double byte, but not exactly. They are combinations of
single-byte and double-byte characters. For the most part, the
single-byte characters correspond to ISO 8859.1, or ANSI,
characters--Western European.

Other Asian languages--Vietnamese, Lao, Khmer, Tibetan--are single-byte.
I haven't done Thai, but I think it's single-byte as well.

Incidentally, a common misconception is that Cyrillic (Russian) is
double-byte. It isn't--it's single-byte.

And then there's Unicode, which actually is double-byte for all
languages. (Though that's not entirely accurate any more, either).

Cordially,

Kerry Thompson

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