What about other languages...

[flipsideguy]

Hey all.
I'm creating a CD-ROM with Flash using an arabic fontset. I want to add a search feature using XML. My question is if anybody knows how to do this, I mean use arabic fonts in an xml document. I know it probably is not possible...just wanted to make sure.

[Tidey]

If arabic fonts can be used in HTML, then I can't see why they can't be used in XML.

XML is just a medium for storing/transferring data in a form that can be easily understood by computers & people.

http://www.w3.org/XML
http://www.w3.org/TR/unicode-xml/

Should answer your question. Check it out. Let us know how you did it.

Cheez,

G

[Papaw]

I am very interested in being able to incoporate many different languages into FLASH projects. Does anyone know how to do this?
Have potential large site to build for client, but she wants it done in 8 different languages. HELP!!

[tupps]

If you can get hold of ActionScript Definitive Guide by Colin Moock, you will find a great set of information about the options for strings on page 75. The basic summary is:

ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) character set is supported this gives you access to:
English, French, German Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

ActionScript suports Japanese characters called Shift-JIS as well.

Unicode is not support so bad luch everyone else :-( maybe Flash 6?

I would recommend that everyone get themselves a copy of Colin's book. I have only made it through 100 pages (reading it cover to cover on the train) and have already found out heaps about how flash and actionscript work. Also a bit of historical stuff which is always nice.

Thanks

Luke