Re: [Flashcoders] RE: Multilanguage sites

[John Dowdell]

Martin Klasson wrote:

The remaining question is how to know which character-sets different
alphabets does require -this is not easy.
I would like a site which shows ALL characters for every specific
variant:


The specific goal, or universal characters for each language, is 
difficult (Chinese characters?! ;-) and the closest resource might be 
the full Unicode documentation itself.


But omniglot.com is very helpful for info on varied writing scripts... 
doesn't discuss computer encodings, but has the scripts themselves. Is 
this close to what you need...?


jd





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RE: [Flashcoders] RE: Multilanguage sites

[Martin Klasson]

I got my own "SharedFonts" solution which works nicely. I just developed
it to a site that will have 60 different markets.

The remaining question is how to know which character-sets different
alphabets does require -this is not easy.

I would like a site which shows ALL characters for every specific
variant:

Turkey:
Abc.. and all characters needed to cover up Turkish and so on.

Then it also would be easy to control whether the font has all required
characters as well.

I don't want to embed unnecessary glyphs since they aren't needed, so I
would love to have that very knowledge of every alphabet -but I cant
find it.

THANKS if you can help out with glyphs, characters for every alphabet.
-as well as a countrylist on which uses the same character-sets or so..

/ martin

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Benjamin
Durin
Sent: den 26 oktober 2005 06:20
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: [Flashcoders] RE: Multilanguage sites 

My advice: DO NOT use different character sets. Stick with Unicode
(UTF-8).
My games in Flash are in French, English and Chinese. Flash handles
Unicode 
natively so I have the different translations in one single file (they
are 
small games so it doesn't take much space). Our database handles Unicode
so 
it communicates with Flash seamlessly. I also tested with Japanese and
Arab. 
It seems ok although my knowledge in these 2 languages doesn't allow me
to 
check thoroughly.



Benjamin.



Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:03:22 +0100
From: daniel clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Flashcoders] Multilanguage sites
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
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I've been approached to put together a site which will ultimately have
10
language variations (some of which dont use the latin alphabet).

Were thinking XML driven content for a start, but what are the major
pitfals
to look out for when putting a multilanguage site togehter. I've done
some
top level research and figure theres goingto be issues with character
sets
etc.

Does anyone have any links to good resources or advice to give ?

Thanks in advance

Daniel




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