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Uli
Uli

Reputation: 2693

AS3 - Chinese text and system fonts

If I set an input textfield to use a _sans system font, does it display Chinese characters?

Thanks. Uli

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1307

Answers (2)

crooksy88
crooksy88

Reputation: 3851

The issue will be whether the system that is running your swf has a Chinese font installed.

_sans is the default 'sans serif' font installed on the system.

Typically PC's in China will ;), Mac's also have one installed by default.

This is a multi lingual presentation that pulls in text from an XML file. If I play this on my Mac and choose the Chinese option I see the font. If I run it on my UK based Windows XP machine it doesn't display the font. The swf specifies the _sans font for anything other than latin languages. So Russian also uses the _sans font.

http://www.sita.aero/content/intelligent-airport-vision

You could assume that people wanting to read information in Chinese would have a Chinese font installed on their system, therefore specifying _sans would be a solution.

Upvotes: 3

shaunhusain
shaunhusain

Reputation: 19748

I believe you need to be concerned about using a Unicode font (one that has chinese glyphs in it, think you can use the character map program in windows to browse the glyphs in a font). I haven't actually had to do localization for China ever so I'm not positive, but here's the wiki page on unicode fonts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_font.

Upvotes: 0

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