Chapter 15: Creating Multilanguage Text - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-USING FLASH Use Manual

CHAPTER 15
Creating Multilanguage Text
Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8 provide several features that greatly
enhance the work flow for authoring multiple language Unicode-based applications. You can
include multilanguage text in your document in the following ways:
The Strings panel lets localizers edit strings in a central location inside Flash or in external
XML files with their preferred software or translation memory. New for Flash 8 is support
for multiline strings in both the Strings panel and in the XML files. For more
information, see "Authoring multilanguage text with the Strings panel" on page
You can select which character sets you want to embed in your applications, which limits
the number of character glyphs in your published SWF file and reduces its size. For more
information, see "Using embedded fonts" on page
You can use a Western-style keyboard to create text on the Stage in Chinese, Japanese, and
Korean. For more information, see
on the Stage" on page
If you have Unicode fonts installed on your system, you can enter text directly into a text
field. Because the fonts are not embedded, your users must also have Unicode fonts. For
more information, see
the Strings panel" on page
Other, less common methods of including multilingual text in your Flash documents include
the following:
You can include an external text file in a dynamic or input text field using the
action. For more information, see
#include action" on page
You can load external text or XML files into a Flash application at runtime using the
action, the
loadVariables
more information, see
"Using a Western keyboard to enter Asian characters
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"Creating documents with multilanguage text without using
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"Creating documents with multilanguage text using the
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action, the
getURL
"Using ActionScript to load external files" on page
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object, or the
LoadVars XML
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#include
object. For
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