MULTILANGUAGE SUPPORT IN DIRECTOR 8.5 or MX

[SlayerRo]

i have a little question...can director 8.5 or mx support multilanguage texts? i'm from romania and i need a text with romanian characters...but director cant read them... anyone have a clue??please..thx

 

[kennethkawamoto]

It's one of the biggest problems with Director. Currently Director doesn't support Unicode, so it cannot display Romanian characters.

I usually use Flash if I need Unicode characters.

There has been much talks about this issue in the Director community and hopefully resolved in the next release of Director 11.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[SlayerRo]

ok..thx a lot.. hope they fix this problem coz i realy need unicode ch

 

[SlayerRo]

there's another small problem... i can make him recognise some romanian ch (3 out of 5 ch.) and i realy dont get it if u have some time to spend on it great..thx

 

[kennethkawamoto]

It seems you can only display 2 out of 5 Romanian characters in Director: â ([â]) and î ([Î]). I presume because these two are part of ASCII set. Other 3 aren't, unfortunately.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[SlayerRo]

Kenneth, I managed to input romanian fonts in Director(finaly ). Just download a font editor and change values and then embend the new font in director... that should work for characters that director cant show

 

[kennethkawamoto]

That's a very interesting hack! What characters have you sacrificed for those 5 Romanian chars?

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[SlayerRo]

none.. just the same ch that should work in director..just edit them..move them 1 px in any direction and them apply unicod on them..then install the font(make copy of old one ) and director should reconiz them with the special ch u need..only one more problem (as allways) u cant right directly into dorector, u must right them in director without ch, copy text into a word doc, applie the ch with another font that reconiz u're ch, then copy the text back to director and applie u're modify font to the text..that's about it ...the program i used it's "Font Creator 5.0" if u need it