Flash :: Embedding Specific Characters For Japanese/chinese Fonts

Chinese Or Japanese Characters
Hello,

I need someone with the ability to type in Chinese or Japanese
characters to do this:

Go to this website:
http://www.zebrasus.com/clients/FlashChat/font/

(it takes about 30 seconds to show up - there is no preloader)

Now, type some Japanese or Chinese characters into the textfield. Do
they appear? We're testing unicode support for a textfield component
that is being developed, and we just need to see if it supports
Japanese or Chinese characters.

Thanks!
Darren

Form With Chinese/japanese Characters
I've been having this problem for quite a while. I know that flash supports UTF characters, but when submitting a form from flash to backend CGI, the UTF characters are lost. For example,

var lv=new LoadVars();
lv.name="你好";
lv.address="地球";
v.sendAndLoad("backend.asp");

then the chinese characters become some funny characters.

what i noticed is that, if i escape chinese characters from flash, the result is different from javascript's escape function.

Does anyone know what is the problem? thanks!

Using Japanese And Chinese Fonts Without Font Symbols.
Hi there,

Using japanese and chinese fonts without font symbols.
I use a V2 textArea component

fontSymbols in flash library + xml loading + css applying.
Works great, text is displayed correctly with the correct font and formating, bitmap fonts or anti-aliased.

But as you know if you dealt already with such a situation each font symbols adds a lot to the swf files (more than 1 meg +/ font symbol).

Instead of using font symbols, which embed the complete font, I've decided to test a workaround. The good classic method of using a dummy text field to which you define selected embed options.

So I have the following:
a dynamic text field with "abcJapanese font" with embed option japanese kana and kenji. Named : dummy_txt
a textarea component named test_cpn editable turned off and html turned off through Flash Gui.
code on frame 5:

ActionScript Code:
test_cpn.setStyle("embedFonts",true);
test_cpn.setStyle("fontFamily","イワタ中ゴシック");
test_cpn.setStyle("fontSize","13");
test_cpn.text="<u>test</u> あなたのブランドの雰囲気をあなたの独自性を尊重しながら作り出します。";

What I've tested:

A: dummy_txt with antialias for animation
---> works japanese font displays correctly in textarea component.
this works with japanese fonts which displays correctly in flash font selector or with unrecognized characters like those desplayed with squares.
B: dummy_txt with no antialias
---> nothing appears in textarea component.
C: dummy_txt with antialias for animation + test_cpn.html=true
---> nothing appears in textarea component.
D: dummy_txt with antialias for animation + test_cpn.editable=true
---> nothing appears in textarea component.

C et D seems to produce same results with regular occidental fonts. As soon as a modification is done to the text area nothing appears anymore...

Thank you in advance for your help.

Embedding Specific Font Characters
I use this method: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/qu...onts/#section1 to import fonts. However there are lots of characters i wont be using, which is inefficient, but i am yet to find a way to only embed/import certain charcters using Actionscript alone...anyone know how to do it?

Embedding European Language Specific Characters
Hi,

I'm using the strings panel to import multi-language text.

How can i ensure that all language specific characters are rendered correctly in the dynamic text field.

Do i have to embed these? If so, how do i know which glyphs sets to embed?

Thanx in advance

Embedding Pixel Fonts - No Characters - A Way?
hi there.
ive look around and read the posts about pixel fonts etc.

i've managed to select 'no character' and have the font look great... of course only if i have it on my system. I then select the character sets and they start to blur.

is there a way to embed the font AND have 'no characters'??

thanks!
shelby.

Chinese/Japanese In Flash
Hey,
I'm trying input some chinese and japanese characters into a flash mx presentation.
I have NJStar which lets me input the characters into most programs. however, in flash, they show up in the text box as im typing but once i choose the arrow tool the characters turn into jibberish.
Anyone know if I'm missing something? Or a better way to go about this?
Thanks.

Chinese Japanese Korean Question
Hi,

just wanted to know whether dynamic text can be used with multibyte fonts - what are the prerequisites (other than a font embedded with the movie)?
Can text be typed using windows alt+ 4-digit number when the movie is playing?
Can CJK text be placed in a text box in the flash app? If so, could someone please mail me some swf showing this

Musicman

How To Input Japanese, Chinese Words?
Hi, i've searched the site for ways of adding in japanese fonts but most of the posts end up just confusing me. Read something about UTP and external unicode files. Also, this link came up http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...icode_in_flmx/ but it just confused me even more. sorry. I just simply want to copy and paste a passage from a word file. What is the best way to do this? I installed the language packs, downloaded both jap and chinese fonts, and I know how to read and write both jap and chinese. So if inputing it myself is the only way then that's ok. Any ideas? any help is GREATLY appreciated. thanks!

Chinese & Japanese Embed Font
Hi,

I've a big problem of showing asian fonts. Somes of them appeared like squares. I've used an embedded font and It doesn't work.

Someone could help me ?

Here is the code.

public static function createAreaText (
param_clip:MovieClip,
param_text:String,
param_font:String,
param_size:Number,
param_color:Number,
param_depth:Number,
param_x:Number,
param_y:Number,
param_width:Number,
param_height:Number,
param_name:String,
param_align:String,
param_letterSpacing:Number,
param_leading:Number):TextField {
if (param_depth == undefined) param_depth = param_clip.getNextHighestDepth();
if (param_x == undefined) param_x = 0;
if (param_y == undefined) param_y = 0;
if (param_width == undefined) param_width = 250;
if (param_color == undefined) param_color = 0x000000;
if (param_font == undefined) param_font = "mainFont";
if (param_name == undefined) param_name = "textObject";
if (param_align == undefined) param_align = "left";

if (_root.lang == "ch") {
param_font = "MS Mincho";
}

var my_textField = param_clip.createTextField(param_name, param_depth, param_x, param_y, param_width, 100);
my_textField.html = true;
my_textField.embedFonts = true;
my_textField.multiline = true;
my_textField.wordWrap = true;
my_textField.selectable = false;

my_textField.htmlText = param_text;
my_textField.htmlText = my_textField.text;

var my_textFormat = new TextFormat(param_font, param_size, param_color);
my_textFormat.align = param_align;
my_textFormat.letterSpacing = param_letterSpacing;
my_textFormat.leading = param_leading;
my_textField.setTextFormat(my_textFormat);

if (param_height != undefined) my_textField._height = param_height;
else my_textField._height = my_textField.textHeight + 5;

return my_textField;
}

Thanks,
Lotfe

ExternalInterface Does Not Support UTF8 (chinese, Japanese)?
(AS2) i used ExternalInterface to passing chinese character parameter to flash, then the flash textfield show me "87T76" per chinese character.

External Interface (javascript/flash communication)

anyone who know about it can teach me how to do ?

Japanese Characters
hi everyone,

i have been requested to build a project that uses Japanese as it's language. I was wondering if Flash MX handles double byte characters like japanese..??

If so, how should i approach it..??

eChimp!!

Japanese Characters?
Hello all!

i'm producing a multilingual app that needs to incorporate japanese and korean as well as the latin character set, and not surprisingly I'm having problems!

I'm embedding these characters in my dynamic text box: 戻る参加するギャラリー福岡県中日年連続 (it's a bunch of japanese characters if it's not coming up on your screen). The font is Copperplate, which does include japanese characters.

I have an xml file which is sending this same string of characters through to the flash file.

When I publish and preview the file the text box is just filled with characters similar to "|".

In the size report text file, the japanese characters have been replaced by these:ÀÜÀú‚Äì‚Äî‚Äò‚Äô‚Äö‚Äú‚Äù‚Äû‚Ä†‚Ä°‚Ä¢‚Ä¶‚Ä∞‚Äπ‚Ä∫‚ Ç¨‚Ñ¢„Åô„Çã„ÇÆ„É£„É©„É™„Éº‰∏≠Âä†ÂèÇÂ≤°Âπ¥ÊàªÊó•Áúå Á¶èÁ∂öÈÄ£

Does anyone know much about this stuff? Or any ideas at what point of this process I'm going wrong?

Japanese Characters
Can a dynamic textfield set to device font Arial show Japanese characters without the user having a East-Asian language pack installed on there PC?

Japanese Characters
Recently my teacher has asked to make an interactive site to teach the students how to write the japanese characters with the stroke order.
it would have been simply done by multiple tweening of the objects, but the problem is i have to use the brush like strokes i.e. thick from where the stroke starts and goes thinner where the stroke ends(this kind of effect can be easily achieved by photoshop, but when created in PS it will become an image which will be hard to tween according to the stroke order, as different strokes will be piled up togetherone upon another(like the order of alphabet Q), is there any way to achive this retaining the brush strokes.

pls help

regards

Japanese Characters In Flash
If this has already been discussed, I'm sorry. I tried searching the forums and I kept getting timeout errors and other things. Kinda weird, but since I can't check the site for another day, I thought I'd ask anyway.

So does anyone out there know how to display japanese text in flash MX? (without having to purchase the Japanese version of flash) I've tried before, but have never gotten it to work. When I type japanese into Flash, it shows up at first, but then when I actually hit return to select the characters, the japanese changes into a bunch of ?????'s. Annoying. I'm using Microsoft IME to type in Japanese, and either MS Mincho or MS gothic fonts. All of this works fine in word, or photoshop, but flash doesn't recognize the characters. Anyone know how to get around this? I know it has to work somehow, since there are japanese flash sites out and about.

The only solution I've come up with is to download a bunch of standard "fonts" that have 255 or whatever characters per font, and manually use the character map to select the specific character I want. This works okay for like a heading or something, but is WAY too time consuming to do for a bunch of text. So any japanophile out there know how?

tetsudatte kudasai ne!

(oh, if someone can get the search to work right now, even just pasting a link to a previous discussion would be great)

[F8] Can You See Japanese Characters On My Clip? Please Help
Hi, guys.
I am glad to join in.

By the way, I need your help.
Could anyone see my flash movie-clip and tell me if you can nomally see Japanese characters on it like a captured image you can see first?

I embeded the font, so you should be able to see the Japanese font on non-Japanese comptuter environment though, I am not able to check myself because my environment is natulally Japanese.

http://monkeyceo.la.coocan.jp/flash/...1(player).html

When you open the URL above, you would see the player of small file size.
Then by a click (If it is IE, twice), downloading movie would start.

The movie is 25MB 600bbps 6min19sec. (sample of NASA's program)
You can change caption by clicking "caption" pleaced above.

You do not have to watch all.
Just checking if you can watch Japanse caption and telling me is very fine,

Thanks for your kind cooporation in advance.

Japanese Characters In Flash
Does anyone know how to get Japanese characters in flash?

Problems Dispalying Japanese Characters... Has Anyone Done This?
I've posted a few times regarding this, but I think I've finally narrowed down the problem specifically enough for some help. Maybe...

Anyway, I have an html form encoded in UTF-8. When data is submitted to MySQL via PHP, it seems to work just fine. After coming out of MySQL via PHP, the data still remains in UTF-8 as far as I can tell. The problem is that the Flash client doesn't seem to recognize the UTF-8 Japanese text, and just appears blank.

If I preceed the Japanese text in the form text field with regular English, the English will show up in the Flash text field, but anything typed after the first Japanese character appears blank.

I've seen various posts about using a simple text file for input, but if I use the database it doesn't seem to work. Has anyone ever done this, or seen something similar in action?

Chinese Characters
Hi. I'm working on a project where I need to use chinese characters.
I'm currently using the #include-command to load a text-file that is UTF-8 encoded... that's how Macromedia suggests you do it.

However: Making all textfields dynamic, and load text into them externally is kind of frustrating(takes long time), so I wonder if there is a way for you to copy-paste chinese characters into your FLA...
Or do they have another version of flash in China??

I read in the manual that comes with flashMX that maybe you could change your settings in windows (in win2000 and later):
In the Control Panel, select Regional Options and with the General tab selected, under Setting for the current user, choose a language.

I'm not very good at windows, and I need files from the Service Pack 3 cd to install new languages, but if I made this, would it be possible to copy-paste chinese characters into the fla?????

Thanks for reading this rather long message

Chinese Characters From Xml ...
I have been using flash and it's new feature of the unicode (chinese
characters mostly). I am having a problem though. When I am making an xml
file with both chinese and english, flash only reads the value of '?'
instead of my charaters.

The encoding I am using is "iso-8859-1" and "Big5", but neither seam to
work. Any ideas?

--backbaychef

Anyone Know How To Get Chinese Characters In MX?
I've done a site for a client, but now they want a copy in Chinese (simsun) characters. I don't know what's needed to allow for foreign characters within MX. ANyone have any ideas on how I could do that? I'd really prefer not to have to do the gif thing.

Thanks in advance.

V.

Chinese Characters?
hey,

so i have been banging my head against a wall trying to get flash to export chinese characters. the fields work to handle the characters, but when i send them to php, it comes out as question marks... any ideas?

kris

Using Chinese Characters
I need to add chinese characters (fonts) to my flash project, is there a tutorial on this or can someone outline the steps required to display chinese fonts?

Thanks

Chinese Characters
I am working on an app with a textfield created with code. The app has a chinese language option so the user needs to be able to enter text in an input text field with chinese characters. When i enable chinese (PRC) in Windows, and i start typing and get the little character entry box. Everything seems normal, but when i have finished the entry no character displays in the box. I can enter roman characters no problem, i can paste chinese characters, i just cant write them directly in the input.

Support For Japanese Characters In Flash 5/MX And In Fireworks 4?
Hi,

I work for a localisation company and we are undertaking a project which uses Flash and Fireworks heavily and we are localising graphics into several languages, one of which is Japanese. Before we start, we need to know whether it is possible to use Japanese characters in Fireworks and Flash.

If it is possible but not a straight forward process, could you give details of how to go about it? Many thanks for any help you can give on this

Best regards,

Dan

Chinese Characters In Flash Mx
Is it possible to input chinese text characters into flash mx, I can input chinese characters into word documents etc, but the text tool in flash does not recognise the characters, is there some plugin or the like available or is it possible at all....?

How To Input Chinese Characters?
how do i include chinese characters in flash?
i tried using njstar. but, the character changes back to garbage when i deselect the text field

Flash And Chinese Characters
hi there, i have some code that loads dat dymanicaly data from an mssql database.... so far, so good....
the data loaded is chinese text and if displayed on a normal html page (have to change to encoding to big5) looks perfectly normal and healthy but, famous last words, the same does no thappen in flash. flash just shows rubbish.
i've tried using the
System.useCodepage = true
and access the page from a windows chinese, and it did not work
tried a couple of more tricks and nothing, and to be honest, it's driving me nuts...
what i wnat to know is, is there any way to tell flash that is group of data is to be interpreted with the big5 enconding. sort of like we do to Internet Explorer by changing the Encoding in the view menu....
please, please help...
thanks in advance for your time and patience...
wils

Displaying Chinese Characters
Hi
I'm building a site that needs to show text in English or Chinese. I have a LoadVars that calls a PHP script which returns the user's country (based on IP and the ip2country database). I have a variable in action script which is used in a dynamic text field. If I switch the variable from containing English text to Chinese text, how can I make that display properly in Flash? I cant rely on the user having that font installed as the flash allows them to manually change their country.

thanks in advance for any advice

Embedding Simple Chinese
When we embed simple chinese in our flash file the finished swf file grows to 6mb? We are clearly doing something wrong but so far we havent been able to find any answers to the problem

Embedding Chinese Font (Please Help)
Hello guys,

Previously i posted a chinese font question, but no one answered. I'm still having alot of problems developing my 1st chinese flash website.

I notice http://www.ovalpartnership.com/ also has a chinese version, which i think they uses dynamic textbox and loads chinese text from .xml files.

I wonder how they keep their file size soo small and yet able to display crisp and nice chinese font. Did they embed the fonts? Whats their method of embeding?

Currently my swf is like 250kb. Having several dynamic textbox which loads the text from .xml file. After embeding the dynamic boxes with Traditional Chinese level 1 (5609 glyphs) it shot up to 1mb which is still acceptable. But i still have another dynamic box to embed, After embeding this box the file size shot up to 2.2mb. Then I notice certain specific word (chinese) weren't displaying at all (few missing words when displaying at swf)

Therefore I tried embeding Chinese (ALL) for 1st box which shot up to 2.5mb , after embeding 2nd box, the file size went 3.6mb which is totally not acceptable.

May I know what step can be taken to keep file size low, embedding the fonts smartly, displaying the font crisp and sharp.

I'm using Mingliu and PMingliu chinese font. I really dont care which font as long it keep file size low and look sharp and crisp.

Hope to hear from you guys..

I'm desperate for help =(

Dynamic Japanese Text? Embedding Issues... Advice Please
Hey guys,

I'm currently building out a website that requires Japanese as one of its languages. This will be entered via XML, and therefore we need to embed the font for it to display properly. This has caused a stumbling block for us because if the text contains Kanji, that's 7000+ glyphs and like 3 megs of stuff to load right at the offset. The two options we seem to be left with are a runtime shared font and manually embedding the copy through a static text field at the start of each subloaded swf. Neither seems ideal because the first option causes us all kinds of headaches with having to keep our swfs separate (Japanese vs English) so we don't cause unnecessary downloads for other languages, and the second isn't really dynamic at all.

So that was basicaly a long-winded way of asking... how do Japanese Flash Developers work with fonts? Is there a trick for getting a limited character set (or sets) to cut down on file sizes? Do they not usually use Kanji?

I really appreciate any help. Thanks!

David

Using Chinese Characters (Kanji) In Flash
Hi,

Im relatively new to flash, and I have been trying to utilize Chinese characters in flash ( Just a few), but every time I go to a font web site to DL the characters I want ( i.e. 51fonts.com) , after opening the Zip file, all I find are regular american fonts....

I run an English/US version of Windows ME and Im figuring that the computer wont allow me to view Chinese characters . I have DL 'd the support for Chinese and Japanese patches, yet I cant seem to find the fonts once I open the .ttf file that I DL.

Can someone help me understand what I am doing wrong?

Korean/chinese Characters In Flash
Hey guys,

i need to make flash banners in Korean and Chinese, but my Flash MX doesn't not want to recognize the characters. does anybody know how to fix this problem? how do i make
flash to recogninze foreign language? The characters show up in Photoshop and illustrator, but not in flash.

any ideas?

thanks,
-maria.

Chinese Characters--the Unanswered Questions
There have been quite a few messages posted to these forums requesting assistance with getting Chinese and other langauge text into Flash. It doesn't appear that any of these have been answered.

I have the same issues. Copy in Chinese that will not render as the characters in Flash, though they work fine in other graphics programs.

*** Is there anyone out there that has addressed these issues that is willing enlighten the rest of us ***

I can't imagine having to input Chinese text using a character palette. Someone throw us a bone.

Regards,
Cole

Animated Chinese Characters For Education
I would liketo animate a series of lines/strokes.
One by one they would draw/reveal/erase themselves over a duplicate image of the same strokes, in effect "drawing" out the pattern line by line.

i currently use a differents layer for each stroke, and reveal it on the page.

is there an alternative method to doing this?

thanks

Animating Chinese Characters For Education
I would liketo animate a series of lines/strokes.
One by one they would draw/reveal/erase themselves over a duplicate image of the same strokes, in effect "drawing" out the pattern line by line.

i currently use a differents layer for each stroke, and reveal it on the page.

is there an alternative method to doing this?

thanks

Chinese Dynamic Characters And Alpha
Working on a legacy app that is receiving chinese characters from an XML file and inserting them into text boxes that start out life as alpha=0.

When they are relevelant, the following code either fades them in or out:

ActionScript Code:
onEnterFrame = function () {
textBox01._alpha -= 10;
if (textBox01._alpha <= 0) {
delete onEnterFrame;
}
}

I've got the font embedded with all proper character sets with Arial Regular. It works on my Mac. However, it's apparently not working on PC.

Anyone have any thoughts why? The english is working fine, it appears to be related to Chinese only.

CONTEXT MENU With Chinese Characters?
Here is the synopsis of the problem: I built this tool that makes use of global variables from an external .AS file for localization purposes. I have the require //!-- UTF-8 setting atop. So far all the text imported from the.as file works fine, I do see chinese characters, but when I try updating the custom context menues........all I see are "??????". What am I doing wrong? is there a way to solve this puzzle?

gaugeMenu = new ContextMenu(gaugeMenuHandler);
gaugeMenu.hideBuiltInItems();
gaugeMenu.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem(_global.context_viewdetails, viewDetails));
gaugeMenu.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem(_global.context_viewrankings, fetchGaugeRanking));
gaugeMenu.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem(_global.context_hidegauge, hideGauge));
gaugeMenu.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem(_global.context_editgaugegroup, editGauge));
gaugeMenu.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem(_global.context_deletegaugegroup, deleteGauge));

Context Menu == Chinese Characters?
Here is the synopsis of the problem: I built this tool that makes use of global variables from an external .AS file for localization purposes. I have the require //!-- UTF-8 setting atop. So far all the text imported from the.as file works fine, I do see chinese characters, but when I try updating the custom context menues........all I see are "??????". What am I doing wrong? is there a way to solve this puzzle?

gaugeMenu = new ContextMenu(gaugeMenuHandler);
gaugeMenu.hideBuiltInItems();
gaugeMenu.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem(_global.context_viewdetails, viewDetails));
gaugeMenu.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem(_global.context_viewrankings, fetchGaugeRanking));
gaugeMenu.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem(_global.context_hidegauge, hideGauge));
gaugeMenu.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem(_global.context_editgaugegroup, editGauge));
gaugeMenu.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem(_global.context_deletegaugegroup, deleteGauge));

Chinese Characters Not Displaying In Flash
Hi all,

Am having problems displaying Simplified chinese in Flash. I have a file and I am using an xml file to hold the text externally.

I have tried embedding the simplified chinese in the text fields in the flash file, using a chinese specific font, however none of this is working any ideas?

Thanks

Embedding Chinese Font (a Smarter Way?) Please Help
Hello guys,

'm still having alot of problems developing my 1st chinese flash website.

I notice http://www.ovalpartnership.com/ also has a chinese version, which i think they uses dynamic textbox and loads chinese text from .xml files.

I wonder how they keep their file size soo small and yet able to display crisp and nice chinese font. Did they embed the fonts? Whats their method of embeding?

Currently my swf is like 250kb. Having several dynamic textbox which loads the text from .xml file. After embeding the dynamic boxes with Traditional Chinese level 1 (5609 glyphs) it shot up to 1mb which is still acceptable. But i still have another dynamic box to embed, After embeding this box the file size shot up to 2.2mb. Then I notice certain specific word (chinese) weren't displaying at all (few missing words when displaying at swf)

Therefore I tried embeding Chinese (ALL) for 1st box which shot up to 2.5mb , after embeding 2nd box, the file size went 3.6mb which is totally not acceptable.

May I know what step can be taken to keep file size low, embedding the fonts smartly, displaying the font crisp and sharp.

I'm using Mingliu and PMingliu chinese font. I really dont care which font as long it keep file size low and look sharp and crisp.

Hope to hear from you guys..

I'm desperate for help =(

No Sound When Trying To Play A .swa File With Japanese Characters In Its Filename In A Browser.
(AS2, Flash Professional 8)
I am unable to hear sound when I try to play a .swa file that has Japanese characters in its filename when I use the .html file created by publishing my flash movie. But if I hit Ctrl + Enter to test the movie, I can hear the sound so there seems to be a problem with the http environment. I think it is something to do with the double byte characters in the filename.

An example of a filename is: ã‚ã‚ŠãŒã¨ã†.swa

The ActionScript that loads the file is:
mySound.loadSound(list.selectedItem.data, true);
where list.selectedItem.data contains the path to the file and the filename.

Has anyone experienced similar problems? If so, how did you fix it?

Thanks