Japanese, Chinese, Korean localization issues?

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has tried translating their Captivate text-to-speech narration and/or closed captions into Japanese, Chinese, or Korean. If so, are there any issues I should be aware of? Which TTS vendors did you use?
Thanks!

I am also interested in this. I have the possibility of a very large job coming up soon that will require localisation to Simplified Chinese.
So any advice would be most welcome.

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Hi All,
I'm trying to understand how to get GTS to properly display the names of the business partners that are in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.
I have set my SAP gui localization as follows:
- Select the Customize Local Layout, then Options, then the |18N tab,
and check the Activate Multibyte Function box
- Select the Customize Local Layout, then Character Set and check
Unicode and Simplified Chinese
In the source R/3 system for these partners, if I set my localization to the right language, the business partner's name and address would be displayed correctly in the C/J/K character sets when I select the appropriate version in International Version of the address.
However, in GTS these names/addresses would just appear as nonsensical characters (like "·ÉÀûÆÖÕÕÃ÷µç×Ó£¨ÉÏº££©ÓÐÏÞ¹«Ë¾").
For example, if I do a look up of a known Chinese BP by number, in the seach results window the Description field of that BP would just be garbage, but if I put the cursor over the Description field, then the correct Chinese display (matching what is in R/3) would appear for as long as the cursor is over that field. This indicates that the data was transferred correctly from R/3 to GTS, but some how the display does not default to the right character set.
If I select that record, the resulting detailed display would also have garbage as the Name and Address. However, here putting the cursor over the fields still do not bring up the correct character displays, and I have found no way to get the correct displays to appear.
Does any one know of a way to get the displays to show correctly in GTS?
And can anyone explain why putting the cursor over the Description (in the BP search results window) would let the correct display pop up?
Greatly appreciate any insight anyone can provide.
Thanks,
Rex

Hi Rex - As per message - this looks to be an issue for BC-I18-UNI and not the GTS application:
For general information purposes - last response from BC-I18-UNI development via oss message:
"However, from readind the message, I believe I understood the reason for
the described effect. I assume GGT is a non-Unicode system? If yes, this
is my idea:
The data stored in the BP tables, e.g. for number 2555442 have been
entred manually, probably within a session using English as logon
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means the stored data are actually Latin-1 data, not Chinese. By
switching the font at front-end side to Chinese, the characters appear
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this context, as the internal font switching mechanisms behave a bit
different in different components, e.g. control based components are
different from normal Dynpro-based fields.
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This holds for all non-Unicode systems. On Unicode systems, the logon
language is arbitrary."

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Windows 8 updated to the last version.
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Warm regards,
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malachite00 wrote:
> Thanks David. So is there any way around having to embed
the font when
> rotating text?
Not that I know of. Your problem is that you're loading the
content
dynamically, so you have no idea what it will contain.
There's normally
no need to embed Japanese fonts for a Japanese audience,
because they
already have the main fonts, such as Mincho, Gothic, or Osaka
on their
machine. Perhaps you'll just have to give up the idea of
rotation.
David Powers
Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

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Hi,
I am coding a script which combines an image with text - now my problem is that it has to work in different languages (e. g. with Japanese / Chinese kanji) and Photoshop CS3 does only return squares. If I copy&paste the wished text manually to a text block in Photoshop (I mean doing the script's work completely by hand) it will work fine; but it seems Photoshop can't identify the text I put in via script. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? I use 'Arial Unicode MS' as font and the javascript file's format is UTF-8. I would be very thankful if someone can help me.
Best regards, blubber

[email protected] wrote:
> The application object doesn't have to be used with javascript - I don't know what it is like in the other scripting languages, but it doesn't matter if you write e.g. app.documents(); or documents.add();.
It's good practice to always include the app prefix when accessing app methods
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me more problems than I care to mention. When I look at my code and see a 'name'
symbol, I know that it is a local variable and not the global app property.
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executeActionGet.
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I hope I've given enough information to explain my problem, and I will be very grateful for a solution to this problem which many people seem to have.
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Message was edited by: svarogexodeus

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Hope this helps you.

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Hi All,
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What I did was:
1. I first added ZH & ZF in SE38->RSCPINST and did the simulate and activate actions.
2. Then I imported the Chinese ZH Alone in SMLT and English as supplement (Since the language CD did not have ZF and I mistakenly added it in RSCPINST).
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ZH Chinese                     8400
DE German                      1100
EN English                     1100
JA Japanese                    8000
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Necessary code pages (TCPDB):
8400 Simplified Chinese
1100 SAP internal, like ISO 8859-1        (00697/00819)
8000 Shift JIS
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                    Japanese_Japan.932
Profile parameters
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Please help.
Regards,
kp

issue resolved. thanks. it was OS locales issue.

Does anyone here use Asian (Chinese/Korean) inputs & outputs with sharing?

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Does anyone in here read, write/type, and print Chinese and Korean documents, e-mails, and Web pages and use software that use asian characters in datas)?
In Windows, one can use MS IME -- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/recommended/ime/default.mspx -- and TwinBridge software (mostly for programs that can't display asian characters correctly like in Palm software with asian datas from Palm Pilot and Treo--CJKOS; TwinBridge said they don't do Apple Mac OS X).
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http://groups.google.com/group/chinesemac/

UI localization issue

I've just notice a strange thing related to UI localization (CVI 2012 SP1).
with a text string control, if I change the character set to GB2312 and I paste a string, I properly see it with Chinese fonts
if I do the same with a ring (adding a new item), I don't see Chinese fonts (see attached)
is this an expected behavior? or a bug?
Vix
In claris non fit interpretatio
Using LV 2013 SP1 on Win 7 64bit
Using LV 8.2.1 on WinXP SP3
Using CVI 2012 SP1 on Win 7 64bit, WinXP and WinXP Embedded
Using CVI 6.0 on Win2k, WinXP and WinXP Embedded
Solved!
Go to Solution.
Attachments:
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Hi Vix,
There is a known bug that can cause the paste to not work correctly. The bug id is 382556, but I don't think it has been added to the known issues list yet. The bug was introduced in version 2009 and is fixed in the version that is about to release.
The workaround is for you to not only change the character set of the Text Style font but to also change the character set of the Label font to Chinese:
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Luis

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