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P_SJ
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April 15, 2008
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Captivate - XML into Greek ?

  • April 15, 2008
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I've got a course and I have to do several languages. I've exported the XML to be sent off for translation. Does anyone have experience of translating into Greek ?

I've received a test XML file from the customer, in Wordpad/Dreamweaver/Word i can see the Greek characters. When import the XML into Captivate 3 then the characters all appear strange and are wrong.

I've had a look on the net and changed the header from...

xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" to xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1253" which you apparently do for Greek translation.

But as soon as i change the header of the XML , Captivate wont import this. Does this mean Captivate only imports Western XML ?

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    P_SJAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 15, 2008
    I'm doing more testing. I've been advised by someone else to use UTF-8 for greek translation but if i change just the top line of my XML to UTF-8 from 16 Captivate refuses to load it up.

    I thought Captivate would let me import any XML but unfortunately so far it seems to be UTF-8 only which is a major pain !
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    toko08
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    September 22, 2008
    Hi,
    I'm new here, but in my opinion UTF-8 and UTF-16 is only the coding of the character set.
    If you load the text into a text editor i.e. Notepad++ (Open Source) you can switch the coding from UTF-8 to UTF-16 or ANSI. I've loaded a .xml file produced by Captivate and Notepad++ showed that the format is 'UCS-2 little endian'. So if you load your UTF-8 'greek' file into the editor, switch to 'UCS-2 little endian' and save the file the output should be imported by Captivate.
    Hope it helps !
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