This may be a bit offtopic but I hope someone with experience with Chinese and director (Kerry?) might help me decide if this is an accidential or an essential problem:
I see serious problems with the input and display of certain Chinese characters into director (and Flash) editable fields / texts.
The setup is: w2k_tw (Taiwan localization) with both traditional and simplified Chinese installed.
MS Global IME with hanyuPinyin as input method.
2 barebone projectors in a window with just four inputs, both field and text and with MS Sans Serif and SimHei as fonts.
One projector has been created from a German localized Director MX, the other one from a Korean localized Director 8.51. Both projectors seem to behave identically here.
In all tests the combination of #text and font SimHei didn't work at all while the other combinations showed the same result.
Test 1: nihao (hello) in simplified: works
Test 2:
weishenme (why) in simplified: fail with the wei character (displaying just a question mark instead)
Test 3:
weishenme (why) in traditional: fail with the wei character and the me character (displaying just a question mark instead).
Test 4: wuwei in traditional: fail with the wei character
Test 5:
wu wei in traditional: displays correct and remains correct even when I take out the additional space afterwards.
Test 6: trying the same expressions in an .swf input: same results.
Test 7:
trying the same examples in wordpad, notepad, uedit, word, ... no problem whatsoever.
So my question is: is it me? is it something about my choice of tools? is there some lucky combination which I failed to find yet? or is there no hope to do a Chinese text input with macromedia products?
TIA Daniel Plaenitz
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