Re: Macromedia Flash and Japanese

jim_breen_at_hotmail.com
Date: 01/06/05


Date: 6 Jan 2005 21:48:04 GMT

John W. <worthj1970@yahoo.com> dixit:
>> Why do Japanese Flash pages show up as mojibake? I'm running XP and
>can
>> otherwise view Japanese Web pages just fine. But when I went to
>> www.utamap.com and tried to look up some lyrics (which were in Flash)
>I
>> could only see the English/romaji bits.

I have found Flash pages to be extremely troublesome in this matter.
It seems that unless they are very carefully constructed, they require
exactly the same fonts as were present on the machine on which they
were created. Whoever designed the underlying structures didn't seem
to know or care about portability.

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Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Computer Science & Software Engineering,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
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