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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=515393107-23042008><FONT face=Verdana
color=#0000ff size=2>Hi Mark,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=515393107-23042008><FONT face=Verdana
color=#0000ff size=2>I did some tests with Mandarin and Japanese in Xerte a good
while ago. I can't remember that I came across any problems with those writing
systems. As you know, Xerte is based on Flash and Flash (at least from version 8
onwards) handles Eastern Asian languages quite well.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=515393107-23042008><FONT face=Verdana
color=#0000ff size=2>There's only one big caveat not directly related to Xerte:
if your end users don't have any Eastern Asian or comprehensive Unicode fonts
(like ARIALUNI.TTF) installed on their computer, they will only see rectangles
instead of Eastern Asian characters. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=515393107-23042008><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2>If you want to
make sure that your end users see you Eastern Asian characters, you can embed
the characters in the Flash file but depending on the number of characters you
have to embed this may increase the file size considerably.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=515393107-23042008><FONT face=Verdana
color=#0000ff size=2>Last but not least there's a third way which we found out
here at Nottingham: if you just want to display the characters (without
embedding), i.e. users don't need the option to edit or copy text, then you can
also dynamically create an image file for each character with a server-side
script and send the image files to the Xerte file which then displays those
characters in the way intended. This is just a very short description, feel free
to ask if you want to have more info about this option.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=515393107-23042008><FONT face=Verdana
color=#0000ff size=2>Cheers,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=515393107-23042008><FONT face=Verdana
color=#0000ff size=2>Thomas</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Mark
Tomlinson, AC&S Ltd<BR><B>Sent:</B> 22 April 2008 15:08<BR><B>To:</B>
'Xerte discussion list'<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Xerte] Asian
Languages<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=468300614-22042008><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a request
to translate the Xerte piece we are working on currently into the following
languages:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=468300614-22042008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Standard Chinese
(putongua)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=468300614-22042008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mandarin Chinese
(guanhua)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=468300614-22042008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Korean</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=468300614-22042008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Thai</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=468300614-22042008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Indonesian</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=468300614-22042008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=468300614-22042008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there any
implications to this from a Xerte perspective that I need to worry
about?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=468300614-22042008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=468300614-22042008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Thanks</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=468300614-22042008><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=468300614-22042008><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Mark</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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