Re: Unicode and languages
Re: Unicode and languages
- Subject: Re: Unicode and languages
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 21:44:18 +0900
I'm building InDesign pages by creating tagged text in AppleScript
and
then importing it into a text box in InDesign.
The text originates in Excel and I get it as Unicode text so that the
Japanese characters are preserved.
While concatenating the string that will become the tagged text, I
have
to insert the correct font tag for the Japanese fonts and English
fonts.
Why not do the whole thing in Unicode? InDesign (at least CS) will
happily accept tagged Unicode text files.
What I'm doing right now is collecting all the code into a string, then
saving to file and importing to InDesign.
This changes all Unicode text into plain strings.
Also, I need to use specific fonts for Japanese and English text so the
font names have to be embedded in the tagged text.
After thinking about that, you don't have to convert the whole thing to
unicode. As I wrote earlier the character set for english is ascii, and
it is included in the same code position in any other encoding. So you
just need to get your file in a japanese supported encoding.
If I am not wrong, utf-8 codes ascii on one byte and all the cjk stuff
in two bytes. That is maybe a way out of your problem: all characters
coded in two bytes are cjk all the rest is ascii, from that you infer
cjk=japanese, ascii=english. But that's only probabilities you deal
with. You'll have to check the output by hand.
If you want tools for cjk stuff you could check the O'Reilly page for
CJKV Information Processing by Ken Lunde. The book is not online but
all the tools he developed are. Besides, a shorter version of the text
(that was used as a draft) includes information only about Japanese
(which is enough for you) and is available online somewhere. A few
dozen pages to get to know anything you need to know on
encodings/character sets etc. Check Ken Lunde and CJK on google.
JC Helary
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