On Jan 5, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Rey Peralta wrote:
I'm currently working on a mini application that will be importing
all it's text from an XML source. It needs to work in multiple
languages, including English, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian,
Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. This combination of
characters makes for an interesting problem. I don't think there is
one font that includes all those characters!?!?
Any advice on how to ensure the display of all characters? The
designer chose to go with Univers Condensed, but it does not
include all the chars I need to display. Should I use "_sans" or is
there another option available to me.
Hi
Does this application need to display all the languages at the same
time?
I think the easiest is using _sans and let the user's computer
provide the correct match.
For a project I did, initially they wanted to a quick "toggle" button
to switch languages on on the dime. But it proved problematic so
separate SWFs were published with the associated font embedded. (You
can leave linkage name the same, just change the font that is is
associated with. Of course embedding Japanese will add at least 1MB
to your file as others have mentioned.)
I think you can embed fonts into separate swfs, like en.swf, jp.swf,
etc, for sharing and load it as needed. But for me, using assets that
are shared was always a nightmare so I gave up. It may have improved
now, I'm not sure.
Not sure how much experience you have with multilingual things, but
one gotcha to be wary of is that while a layout looks nice with
english words, words in other languages are longer or shorter and
won't look as nice, IMO. You may need to simply load a set of jpgs
(especially for headers which, agreeably, requires pixel perfect
letter spacing and other treatments).
-robert
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