Dave Mennenoh wrote: > Thanks much for the great advice. I'm getting there... However, soon as I > include the Chinese glyphs my swf gets to near 5MB. Is there an easy way to > embed only the chinese glyphs in a separate swf and load them only if > needed? AS2... With Cryllic, Hangul, and everything else I get a > respectable 300K, but the chinese adds too much to just leave it in.
Ok, it's time to admit it--I speak Chinese (Mandarin). Cyrillic and Hangul are phonetic character sets, and don't have that many characters. Cyrillic is small enough to be a single-byte set, in fact, the same as English. Hangul has more than 256 characters, but not nearly as many as Chinese. To be able to read a Chinese newspaper, you need to know about 2,500 characters (compared with 26 in English). A college-educated Chinese speaker will probably know about 5,000 characters, and a scholar may know as many as 8,000-10,000. That's a lot of characters. Then you add in the fact that there are two versions of Chinese characters (traditional and simplified), you have a lot of characters. Still, 5MB sounds like a lot. I think there are options for installing a subset. In CS3 on Windows Vista, I see options for Level 1 (5609 glyphs) and all (18,439 glyphs) for traditional Chinese. There are the same options for simplified, with different numbers. Can you get by with just the Level 1 characters? I'm guessing you probably can. Those 5,000+ characters are probably enough, unless you're doing something really specialized. Cordially, Kerry Thompson _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
