> > I'm trying to display french, german and greek characters in > > the same director field and the application has to play in > > Windows and Mac. I have the text in Microsoft Word(Windows) > > and it looks fine(using the Arial Unicode font), but when i > > import it in Director it's giving me problems. I haven't > > tried to embed a font able to display all the characters at > > the same time. Is there anyone knowing a solution for this? > > (I'm using an English system(Win2000, Director 8.5) but i've > > tried in Greek system and the problem remains). > > Hi Takis, > > First of all, Director doesn't support Unicode. You'll need to use > standard ANSI and Mac fonts. > > A little background on fonts. The International Standards Organization > has published standards for several character sets in its 8859 standard. > There are ten sets--8859.1 is Latin-1, used for most Western European > Languages, and corresponds with Windows' ANSI character set. 8859.5 > defines the Cyrillic character set, 8859.6 is for Arabic, and 8859.7 is > used for Greek--bingo!. > > You should have no problems with French and German, because they use the > same encoding, and the same code page, as English. > > The problem you'll run into is that Greek fonts usually use code page > 1253, and if you're running on an English system, you're using code page > 1252. That means that, effectively, Director won't "see" the Greek > characters. > > The best solution I've found is to get a Greek font for code page 1252. > They are available, or you could use something like Fontographer to > create your own. > > Hope this helps. > > Cordially, > > Kerry Thompson >
Another way to accomplish this is to embed the text in flash and import the flash movies. Flash supports unicode text. I am not sure if Flash 5 supports unicode though. Regards, Anand Ravi [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
