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TechWriter2020
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May 13, 2020
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Simplified Chinese Characters

  • May 13, 2020
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Hi Everybody

How do I insert Simplified Chinese characters in to a manual? I've tried word and .txt docs, then, but Framemaker doesn't recoginze them: it just displays a series of very angry confused questions marks. 

 

Thanks! 

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TechWriter2020Author
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May 13, 2020

Sorry. I was under a deadline and just added a screenshot of the Simplified Chinese. Thanks.

Bob_Niland
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Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 13, 2020

What version of Framemaker? (it would need to be FM8 or later for Unicode).

Is the source for the text encoded as Big5, GB18030 or Unicode?

What font or typeface?

If you have a font that populates the codepoints used, recent versions of FM have, at:
Input » Character, either
Character Palette applet for picking them, or
Hex Input for entering known character code points. 

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TechWriter2020Author
Inspiring
May 13, 2020

FM 2019

Not sure how to answer your second question

Font I'm using (English) is Arial

OK. I know of the character pallette, but am not sure (stepwise) how to code those characters in.

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Stefan GentzCommunity Manager
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May 13, 2020

You need to assign a font that actually has Chinese Characters. Arial is not one of them, that's why it only shows question marks.

Try SimSun or some other Chinese font.

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Winfried RengCommunity Expert
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May 13, 2020

Hi,

 

Which font do you use? Does your font have these characters? You could apply the same font as in Word.

 

Best regards

 

Winfried

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TechWriter2020Author
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May 13, 2020

I'm using Arial for English.

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