Xara X and CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)

Well, I asked Xara whether Xara X supports CJK or multibyte languages in general and the reply was "no".

But that's not true, at least if you have Win XP Professional. You just have to change the language controlpanel as follows.

Well, I asked Xara whether Xara X supports CJK or multibyte languages in general and the reply was "no".

But that's not true, at least if you have Win XP Professional. You just have to change the language controlpanel as follows.

CJK input in Xara X.

Don't speak it, but glad you have that option. WEll, looks like XP just got one more plus point in my book.

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This should work for other multibyte languages, too.

I have seen some threads on Problems with Arabic for example.

This is great news you are reporting. I hope Xara Ltd. will see it. I'm sure it will interest them. They should investigate further and perhaps add a notice about it to their website. There are many people around the world unable to make effective use of Xara due to the lack of support for multibyte non-unicode languages. Perhaps with WinXP Pro there is an expanding market for Xara.

Oh and what does that Korean say?? I thought I'd better check in case you are swearing at us!! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

I spent about three weeks in Korea on business a few years ago. I'd love to go back. I found the people so full of life and the country so beautiful. I've told my seven year old son I will take him some day. I would love to go with him and my father (who fought in the Korean war and shares an affection for your country).

I'm glad you are participating in this forum. I hope you feel very welcome here. If you aren't aware of them, be sure to visit the Xara Gallery Forum and Gary's XaraXone website.

Regards, Ross

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Ross,

thank you for your kind welcome!

Yes, I'm really glad I found this forum and Xara X. This place is somehow different from other boards, ppl really try to help each other.

The lack of multibyte support is certainly one reason why Xara is not so well known in certain regions, just have a look at the map with all the Xara users ...

BTW, the text just means "Korea", the 1st line with the Korean Alphabet (Hangul), the 2nd line with Chinese Characters. Korea is a nice place to be, I came here 3 years ago.

Marcus

in Win 2000 pro.

Benj-san,

Hajimemashite!

Marcus to mooshimasu, doozo, yoroshiku o-negai shimasu!

Great! Are you using the English or the Japanese version of Win 2k?

There's also a multilingual version of Win 2k available where you can choose different language settings.

Where are you in Tokyo? I've been living in Shinjuku and Ikuta (near Kawasaki-shi) a few years ago.

First, I was very impressed this topic.. ^^

I'm Korean User.

No problem occured when I type text korean fonts.
I think xara supports korean language 99percent very well.
but, The rest of 1% is a keyboard "right" cursor key error.... -_-

Whenever I click on 'right' cursor-key on keyboard, Show Grid (keyboard shortcut : #) menu displayed (Toggle).
It's very annoying when I move objects (or node) using keyboard.
Other arrow key (up,down,left) have no problem.


OS: Hangul Windows 2000 Pro. (Win98, WinXP have same problem)

I tried everything (for example, Keyboard IME setting), but work in vain.

Have a nice day~~~

http://www.xara.co.kr/temp/right_cursorkey_bug.gif

[This message was edited by kimbs on January 09, 2002 at 00:40.]

Dear Mr. Kim,

you are completely right with your observation!

The same is also true for Japanese (and maybe Chinese and other multibyte languages, I did not check this).

But for people like me who only have to use Japanese or Korean once or twice a week, this is a great work-around, much better than pasting Word-Art into Xara X.

Of course, it would be great, if Xara X offered "real" support for multibyte languages like Adobe or Corel who introduced asian support some time ago (as opposed to Macromedia).

Maybe, Xara could do the same?

I think, Xara could be very popular here with real CJK support, just like the Namo Web Editor is more popular here than Dreamweaver, Golive and Frontpage all together (also don't forget the Japanese and Chinese market). The only problem is, that, despite reports regarding a cracking down on software piracy, all Koreans I know are strongly conviced that I must be crazy, 'cause I buy the software I use.

Mr. Kim, I also found your homepage, great job! Do you know of any service bureaus in Korea (Daegu or Seoul) that accept native Xara X files or which file format do you use to submit your files?

It's a pleasure to meet you here on the Xara forum!!! Have a nice evening!

Regards,
Marcus

Ross, I knew you would ask this! So, I post, before you ask ... no swearing here ...

Benj's post means "Japanese", the first line with one of the 2 (Koreans only have 1) alphabets, the 2nd line is the same with Chinese characters.

Regards,
Marcus

It's really a pleasure to see Mr. Kim with us. He hosts one of the best websites in Korea for the Xara user, with a lot of effort and love put into spreading the word about our favorite graphics program.

This discovery rocks!

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by kimbs:
First, I was very impressed this topic.. ^^

I'm Korean User.

No problem occured when I type text korean fonts.
I think xara supports korean language 99percent very well.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>