Adobe 65030089 User Manual - Page 50

USING ROBOHELP HTML 10 44 Projects Language support for associated dictionaries If your project contains content authored for multiple languages, define RoboHelp language settings in the project, topic, and paragraph separately. The effective language is used for dictionary or thesaurus association and for spell checking. For example, suppose you set the project language to UK English and the paragraph language to French for several paragraphs. The French spelling checker is activated for French paragraphs while the UK English spelling checker is used for the rest of the content. Note: Updated language settings for each language are stored at a common location in the project folder. You can access the language settings information in the Projects\ !Language! folder. Index localized text Use the Smart Index wizard to index your localized project. You can assign keywords for each topic based on the topic content. The index is generated based on language and search criteria you define in the Smart Index wizard. The Smart Index Wizard suggests keywords based on topic content. 1 Select a language for a new or existing project. 2 Follow the steps for automatically creating your index. Universal character sets RoboHelp enables you to create content in multiple languages. However, authoring content in a multilingual environment can be challenging when the languages span multiple Microsoft Windows code pages. Support for the Unicode character encoding standard in RoboHelp overcomes many of these challenges. Without Unicode, operating systems use a code-page-based environment, in which each language script has its own table of characters. Content based on the code page of one operating system seldom translates correctly on an operating system that uses another code page. For example, suppose you are running the English version of the Microsoft Windows® XP/Vista operating system with the German code page. Then suppose you open a plain text file created in the Japanese version of Windows XP/Vista. In this case, the code points of the Japanese code page are mapped to unexpected or nonexistent characters in the Western script. The resulting text is unintelligible. The universal character set provided by Unicode and supported in RoboHelp overcomes this problem. Support for Unicode text encoding standards RoboHelp HTML supports Unicode text encoding. You can create a topic in multiple languages, regardless of the language used by the operating system running RoboHelp. You can perform the following tasks related to Unicode: • Author documents containing multilingual paragraphs and words. For example, you can have a set of Greek characters followed by Russian characters, and then by French text in the same paragraph. • Use the relevant language spelling checker to check Unicode content. • Create, open, or edit Unicode-encoded HTML and text files (UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoded files). • Enter Unicode characters in input forms and dialog boxes. • Generate TOC, index, and glossary by using Unicode strings. • Convert and import text of non-Unicode encoded file types (HTML, XML, MIGF, and so on). • Publish content to a non-English server by adding multibyte characters in the complete path name. • Create, open, or edit Unicode-encoded HTM files (UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoded files). Last updated 7/13/2012