Using Japanese Characters in a string

[TheLostGuru]

I am currently struggling with this problem. I want to add Japanese characters to a variable and then display them in a text-box dynamically. At first I when I pasted the characters into the actions panel as a string variable they just showed up as little boxes. I changed the actions panel default font to one of the japanese fonts and then I was able to see the characters in the actions panel. When I run the movie however, the characters do not show up in the text field. Does anyone know how to work with this?

[alillm]

hmm, I can't see why it wouldnt work. Each key on the keyboard has a corosponding hiragana symbol right? so providing you typed the correct sequence of letters for the string, they should be shown correctly when using a japanese font in a dynamic text box.

So if the string was "lg", then the japanese dynamic text box would show the japanese for 'cat'

I'm not sure if this is what you are trying to do though, but I don't get why you would want the actual variable to be in japanese?

Ali

[EDIT]
Actually the example I gave might not be right, I just took a look at a pic of a Japanese keyboard, and the Japanese font I have doesn't match up with it, but if you have one that does, then it should work.

[VENGEANCE MX]

Well, when I use Japanese, I just type in romaji and it gets converted to kana as I type. Definitely doesn't map a kana chart to my keyboard, like alillm seems to be saying.

LostGuru, perhaps embedding fonts in that text box might help (make sure the text box is a Japanese font, too). Embed all characters just to be safe.

[alillm]

Sorry yea, that’s what I get for skim reading. I thought we were talking about using Japanese fonts (as in a Japanese font that just works like any normal font).

Yes you’re right, you don’t have symbols mapped to keys for normal typing in Japanese. What you are doing should work though, I don't think embedding would make any difference (unless if you are testing in the browser), but yes, make sure you are using a Japanese font, that’s the only problem I can think of. This might have nothing to do with it being Japanese though, on my last project, embedding fonts stopped all text from showing and I never found the solution.

Ali

[renderhjs]

and of course saving xml, txt,... files as unicode format but I guess that goes without saying esspecially for the ones who´s country language isn´t easy english

[TheLostGuru]

Thanks for the help. I accidently stumbled upon a solution. If I put the characters I am using, in a static text file on the first frame, then they will show up in the dynamic text box. I am now struggling with something else. Is there a quality setting in flash? How do I set it to high? When you import something is there a way to import it in top quality? When you export a swf, is there a way to do it in top quality?

[renderhjs]

_quality="BEST" (4x anti alias steps + bitmap smoothing)
or
_quality="HIGH" (4x anti alias steps)

the quality is set as a global value so you cant set it independent. But maybe you mean by quality the textfield wich is set to selectable or hasn´t embedded any font or simply is set to bitmap- font rendering

[VENGEANCE MX]

There should be some anti-aliasing settings for the text box, just select it and look in the Properties panel.

[renderhjs]

isn´t that the font rendering method?- it´s not a perse a quality thing it depends on what you need (LCD optimized, motion, bitmap,...)

[TheLostGuru]

The _quality = "Best" is what I was looking for. Thanks

[EvilKris]

I just type in romaji and it gets converted to kana as I type

Wow, youngsters these days are getting so multicultural..

[alillm]

I blame the food industry...

Seriously though, its surprising how many people here actually know, or are learning Japanese!

Ali

[VENGEANCE MX]

Wow, youngsters these days are getting so multicultural..

Just in case that was sarcasm, I'd like to point out that the only way for me to actually type directly as kana is to click buttons on a kana chart. Very slow!

[EvilKris]

Seriously though, its surprising how many people here actually know, or are learning Japanese!

Well in my case it wasn't a hobby, I studied it in University and sort of drifted around the world and ended up here and then the lingo started to become second nature after a number of years. But yeah, like you I'm amazed when 'normal' folk know all these words like 'otaku', 'hentai', 'sugoi', 'ai****eru' and all that. I'm not saying I'm an old fart or anything, but when I was that age it went about as far as 'konnichiwa'.

So, no sarcasm here Vengeance, just astonishment.

p.s.if you want to write in Japanese, use Microsofts Japanese Global IME.

[alillm]

p.s.if you want to write in Japanese, use Microsofts Japanese Global IME.

Yea, that’s what I use, but for some reason, I can't get it to work in word which isn’t too helpful!

Ali

[VENGEANCE MX]

p.s.if you want to write in Japanese, use Microsofts Japanese Global IME.

Using a Mac here, I think that's Windows software? Besides, the 'International' settings give me a system-wide as-you-type romaji to kana converter which I can toggle on/off with a quick keystroke. Also got a system-wide kana palette, but that's button-based.

We learn those words from Naruto and Megatokyo.

[iopred]

Thanks for the help. I accidently stumbled upon a solution. If I put the characters I am using, in a static text file on the first frame, then they will show up in the dynamic text box. I am now struggling with something else. Is there a quality setting in flash? How do I set it to high? When you import something is there a way to import it in top quality? When you export a swf, is there a way to do it in top quality?

You can do without this by clicking the little 'add' button in the library, and say "New Font", and add the font you're using, name its linkage whatever you use as the font name for the textfield.