Articles about localisation’

Aug 13, 2008

Flashplayer bug: Incorrect wrapping on multiline Unicode text

Posted by Dennis in Flash, Flex 4 comments

I came across this bug while working on a localised Flex application for one of our clients. In the Thai version of the site the text was wrapping incorrectly. It didn’t cut off sentences where there were whitespaces. Instead it cut off in the middle of words. Take a look at this example: You can [...]


Aug 6, 2008

Custom character sets in the Flash CS3 Character Embedding panel

Posted by Dennis in Flash No comments

This is extremely useful when you work with localised applications. It often happens that the character set you have to work with is not in the list or contains more characters than you need to use. The Character Embedding Panel uses an xml file called UnicodeTable.xml. You can find it here: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\local settings\application [...]