Re: [Flashcoders] Language expert on embedding fontsfordifferent language sets
Now i think of it.. I believe the character extending program works with indexes where you can place/draw the character.. to get the right index/spot where a new character should go in a font i believe we compared it with Arial.. the reason was that Arial was pretty complete. Not sure what the program was called though.. (designer is on vacation aswell).. if you can't find any just give a call.. then i'll look it up for you. With kind regards, Dennis Isioux - Original Message - From: Dennis - I Sioux [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:42 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Language expert on embedding fontsfordifferent language sets Hey Michael, For a big european platform i have a multilanguage application that has 11 languages in it now. English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portugees, Italian, Polish, Swedish, Denish and for Norway. I remember collecting info from sites like listed below: http://www.unicode.org/charts/ http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/csettables.html http://www.biega.com/special-char.html http://www.tony-franks.co.uk/UTF-8.htm In flash 7 (was big project.. so mutch work to turn to flash cs :-D ) .. i'm using the following sets: -Uppercase -Lowercase -Numerals -Punctuation -Basic Latin -Latin I -Latin Extended A -Latin Extended Add'l Mind that i'm not using the -Latin Extended B. So far we had no complaints with that not being enough characters.. Some fonts we had to extend though.. you got small programs for that.. easy enough to extend the special fonts you'r using. Don't remember if we had to extend Arial though.. i believe it pretty mutch covered everything. Don't know about Greek either though.. Hope this helps you along.. With kind regards, Dennis I Sioux - Original Message - From: Michael Ypes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 10:26 AM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Language expert on embedding fonts fordifferent language sets By the lack of feedback do I take it that no one is knowledgeable on this topic??? Any help would be appreciated or pointers to some information on this. I can't believe I am the only person on this list that has had to make an application for Europe! I have searched myself but with no luck. Cheers M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Ypes Sent: 18 July 2007 16:20 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Language expert on embedding fonts for different language sets I am implementing a multilingual site for all the European countries and I am creating separate font libraries for which I will just load the right one based on the locale. From what I can gather there are four main ones which is Latin, Armenian, Cyrillic and Greek. The question I am asking is what font sets do you embed for the particular language set. I am using the Arial font as that tends to have all the necessary glyphs and have embedded the characters as shown below. Now this works but I feel I am using a sledge hammer to crack a nut as I am not sure what languages use which and therefore I am embedding the latin into the other character sets which I am assuming is not needed. Any help, advice or pointers to information regarding this would be fantastic. The font sets I am embedding are as follows - are these right, wrong or just plain ridiculous??##!! Latin language settings -Uppercase -Lowercase -Numerals -Punctuation -Basic Latin -Latin I -Latin Extended A -Latin Extended B -Latin Extended Add'l Armenian language settings -Uppercase -Lowercase -Numerals -Punctuation -Basic Latin -Latin I -Latin Extended A -Latin Extended B -Latin Extended Add'l -Armenian Cyrillic language settings -Uppercase -Lowercase -Numerals -Punctuation -Basic Latin -Latin I -Latin Extended A -Latin Extended B -Latin Extended Add'l -Cyrillic Greek language settings -Uppercase -Lowercase -Numerals -Punctuation -Basic Latin -Latin I -Latin Extended A -Latin Extended B -Latin Extended Add'l -Greek Thanks in advance :) Michael ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http
RE: [Flashcoders] Language expert on embedding fontsfordifferent language sets
Thanks Dennis This app needs 28 countries, i.e. the whole of Europe which is why we are using Arial as it has the full character set needed including Armenian, Cyrillic and Greek. It's just that I wanted to split it into its different locales so that countries did not need to load in unwanted/unneeded font sets. However I have just been informed that the company will need the latin font set to a certain extent as they will want to include there brand/product names which are all in latin. So for the other languages, i.e. Cyrillic, Armenian and Greek I shall embed only the basic latin along with Upper/Lower, punctuation and numerals along with their specific language set. I am hoping that should cover it... I did do a project a few months ago which got translated from English to welsh and we had problems with the font. The font was a bespoke handwritten font which did not have the welsh character of a y with a hat/circumflex so if you know of a bit of software that enables you to extend a character set then I would definitely like to know. It was an absolute nightmare converting all that text into another font... Cheers M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis - I Sioux Sent: 19 July 2007 10:51 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Language expert on embedding fontsfordifferent language sets Now i think of it.. I believe the character extending program works with indexes where you can place/draw the character.. to get the right index/spot where a new character should go in a font i believe we compared it with Arial.. the reason was that Arial was pretty complete. Not sure what the program was called though.. (designer is on vacation aswell).. if you can't find any just give a call.. then i'll look it up for you. With kind regards, Dennis Isioux - Original Message - From: Dennis - I Sioux [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:42 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Language expert on embedding fontsfordifferent language sets Hey Michael, For a big european platform i have a multilanguage application that has 11 languages in it now. English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portugees, Italian, Polish, Swedish, Denish and for Norway. I remember collecting info from sites like listed below: http://www.unicode.org/charts/ http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/csettables.html http://www.biega.com/special-char.html http://www.tony-franks.co.uk/UTF-8.htm In flash 7 (was big project.. so mutch work to turn to flash cs :-D ) .. i'm using the following sets: -Uppercase -Lowercase -Numerals -Punctuation -Basic Latin -Latin I -Latin Extended A -Latin Extended Add'l Mind that i'm not using the -Latin Extended B. So far we had no complaints with that not being enough characters.. Some fonts we had to extend though.. you got small programs for that.. easy enough to extend the special fonts you'r using. Don't remember if we had to extend Arial though.. i believe it pretty mutch covered everything. Don't know about Greek either though.. Hope this helps you along.. With kind regards, Dennis I Sioux - Original Message - From: Michael Ypes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 10:26 AM Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Language expert on embedding fonts fordifferent language sets By the lack of feedback do I take it that no one is knowledgeable on this topic??? Any help would be appreciated or pointers to some information on this. I can't believe I am the only person on this list that has had to make an application for Europe! I have searched myself but with no luck. Cheers M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Ypes Sent: 18 July 2007 16:20 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Language expert on embedding fonts for different language sets I am implementing a multilingual site for all the European countries and I am creating separate font libraries for which I will just load the right one based on the locale. From what I can gather there are four main ones which is Latin, Armenian, Cyrillic and Greek. The question I am asking is what font sets do you embed for the particular language set. I am using the Arial font as that tends to have all the necessary glyphs and have embedded the characters as shown below. Now this works but I feel I am using a sledge hammer to crack a nut as I am not sure what languages use which and therefore I am embedding the latin into the other character sets which I am assuming is not needed. Any help, advice or pointers to information regarding this would be fantastic. The font sets I am embedding are as follows - are these right, wrong or just plain ridiculous??##!! Latin language settings -Uppercase -Lowercase
