MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING FLASH Use Manual page 241

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After you select a language, a column for the language is added to the Strings panel. When you
save, test, or publish the application, a folder with an XML file is created for each language. For
more information, see
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In the Strings panel, encode each text string with an ID. For more information, see
strings to the Strings panel" on page
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Publish the application.
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A folder is created for each language you select, and within each language folder is an XML file
for that language. For more information, see
on page 244.
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Send the published FLA file and XML folders and files to your translators. You can author in
your native language, and let them make the translation. They can use translation software
directly in the XML files or in the FLA file.
file" on page 246.
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When you receive the translations from your translators, import the translated XML files back
into the FLA file. For more information, see
on page 247.
For a sample of a multilanguage document, see
Selecting languages for translation
You can select as many as 100 languages that can appear on the Stage and in the Strings panel for
translation. Each language you select becomes a column in the Strings panel. You can change the
Stage language to show the text on the Stage in any of the languages you selected. The selected
language appears when you publish or test the file.
When selecting languages, you can use any of the languages provided in the pop-up menu as well
as any other Unicode-supported language.
To select a language:
Select Window > Other Panels > Strings to open the Strings panel.
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Click the Settings button to show the Settings dialog box.
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Add a language by doing one of the following:
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In the Languages pop-up menu, highlight a language you want to select, and click the
Add button.
If the language does not appear in the pop-up menu, in the blank field below the Select
languages pop-up menu, type a language code and optional country code, in the format
xx_XX. Then click the Add button. The first part, xx, is the language code from ISO 639-1,
and XX is the optional uppercase two-letter country code from ISO 3166-1.
After you click the Add button, the language appears in the Available Languages field.
Repeat step 3 until you have added all the languages you want.
4.
In the Default language field, select a default language. This language appears on systems that
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do not have one of the available languages you selected.
"Selecting languages for translation" on page
242.
"Translating text in the Strings panel or an XML
Authoring multilanguage text with the Strings panel
"Publishing and deploying multilanguage text"
"Importing an XML file into the Strings panel"
"Developing multilingual content" on page
241.
"Adding
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