Re: Date Setting in Japanese

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December 19, 2024
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Hi Dave,

I happen to have a minor issue related to creation date, too.

I maintain two documents in different language, one being Japanese.

The creation date works perfectly in English font, but after I format the creation date with Japanese font it lost the string month. What should I do to have creation date prints out the month in Japanese?

In EN font, the date would be April 2011. But here in JP font, it becomes simply '4 2011'

Regards,

Andy

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Bob_Niland

Community Expert

What data object is the creation date in the FM document?

There's not really any such thing as an "EN" or "JP" font.
Those are usually just ISO language codes.
The month abbreviation would be different codepoints for
English (April 2011) and {per Google}
Japanese (2011年4月).
If the font in use doesn't populate 年 (U+5E74) and 月 (U+6708), it might render as "2011 4".

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Andy38108926n5yfAuthor

Known Participant

Hi Bob,

I'm not quite understand what is data object of creation date.

I was simply using the built-in system variable Creation Date (Long): <$monthname> <$year>

The fonts I use are Calibri and Yu Gothic.

1. Your ISO codes seem accurate, and I have it on my font set. How come FM doesn't print them out?

2. I've tried to add these characters into the system variable, but FM simply removed them after input.

Bob_Niland

Community Expert

Creation Date (Long) or Creation Date (Short) are System Variables, composed of pre-defined FM building blocks, such as:
‹$monthnum›
For dates, I see that there are various options for Asian locales, such as (for month):
‹$monthnumkanjikazu›

I don't actually know whether FM has a global control for localizing date formats. The
Paragraph Designer /Font\ Language
setting, for example, doesn't seem to do anything.