Chinese translation has garbage for index entries (also Mif2Go issue)

[Alison Craig]

I had some problems with Chinese characters on a recent FM9.0p255 translation job (6 weeks ago). I wasn't converting files to HTML or using Mif2Go, so some of my issues are not parallel, but make sure you check to ensure:

- the actual font being used is installed on your system
- the language is set correctly in all book files.

I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, so again, we're not apples to apples, but does XP have the option to install additional languages? I found that when I installed "Chinese (Simplified, PRC)", many - but not all - of my issues went away.

Alison
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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Celine Deguire
Sent: May 17, 2011 1:18 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Chinese translation has garbage for index entries (also Mif2Go issue)

Hello

I'm reviewing Chinese Simplified files returned from my Chinese translator and everything is fine except for the index entries displayed as garbage in the marker dialog. In the generated index, the text appears to be Chinese after updating the book. Upon conversion to HTML Help 1.x output, the *.hhk file contains garbage characters for the index entries. The original files I sent are Framemaker 7.2 format and these were saved as MIF before sending. He translated them using Trados 2006 and returned the files again in MIF format. We are working on an English Windows XP.

Upon return of the files, we attempted migrating the files to Help 1.X output using Mif2Go but the index entry output in the *.hhk file was garbage.

As a test, we saved the files in FM 8.0  p277 format and the index entries were garbage (mostly question marks) in the marker dialog and generated index. As expected, after Mif2Go conversion *.hhk file shows entries as garbage.


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