Abstract

FrameMaker overview

Structured and unstructured FrameMaker

Components of a structured FrameMaker solution

Starting points

The FrameMaker document model

FrameMaker customization

Language support

Entities

Building document structures

Resources and references

Language support

XML uses the Unicode character set. The goal of Unicode is to provide a single character set encoding that covers all the languages in the world. This includes the Latin alphabet (English and most Western European languages), Cyrillic alphabet (Russian and other Eastern European languages), character-based languages (such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean), and languages that read from right to left (Hebrew and Arabic).

FrameMaker 8 now provides Unicode support, although right-to-left languages (Arabic, Hebrew) and complex scripts (Thai, Vietnamese) are not supported. FrameMaker supports the following language groups:

• English and Western European languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, and so on)
• Double-byte languages (Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese, and traditional Chinese)

FrameMaker 7 supplies dictionaries for about two dozen languages; for a list, refer to the Adobe web site. In addition to the officially supported languages, it’s possible to configure FrameMaker to process additional languages, such as Russian, Polish, Greek, and Turkish. FrameMaker will not render any bidirectional or right-to-left languages, such as Arabic or Hebrew.

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