When I wrote for help I was actually attempting some work with Vietnamese and with Korean.
Localization is going to be a hugely relevant (and hard issue) for me since I'm creating accessible multimedia (for blind, dyslexic and learning disabled folks) which I hope can be distributed throughout the world - including some places that don't traditionally have access to these kinds of materials. I'm in the process of setting up machines that will be running "non-Western" Director localizations.
I've archived all your previous responses regarding text display and localization and this one will definitely get added to that collection. I've learned a bunch from you. Thanks!
It seems for broad support I would probably want to go with Unicode in a Flash text sprite...or no?
J
On Friday, Feb 14, 2003, at 12:27 US/Eastern, Kerry Thompson wrote:
support.AFAIK Asian language fonts are double byte which director doesn't
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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