JS Display international characters

Question

I've recently posted a script that makes a font catalogue. One of the comments I got was if it could display international characters Russian for example. Would anyone have any suggestion as to how I might go about this? I've got a couple of changes I need to make to the script and it would be good to include this request as well.

Cheers.

Kasyan Servetsky · Accepted Answer

Thanks Marc and Kaysan,For some reason Kaysan I get an error message tellingError Number: 30474Error String: 'local' is a read only property.Line:1Source: app.locale='ru';Marc I'm looking through your snippet as we speak, much appreciated to you both.Cheers, John.John,I am sorry — my memory let me down , it should have been:$.locale = 'ru';Kasyan

Jongware · Answer

To insert any other character into Javascript strings than plain A..Z, you can always safely use Unicode notation. You need to look up the Unicode values of the characters you want to insert, but fortunately InDesign can help you with that: the Glyphs panel shows the Unicode value for any character if you hover the mouse over it, andyou can copy some text from the web, paste it into InDesign, then select each character in turn and check the Info panel.

Insert the Unicode values into your javascript string like this: "\u0000" where the zeros should be replaced with all four Unicode digits in hex notation (which is nothing more complicated than "that's exactly what InDesign is showing you in the Info panel").

For instance, "Jongware" appears on Russian web sites as something like this: Дзонгшаре

As a Javascript string this would be "\u0414\u0437\u043e\u043d\u0433\u0448\u0430\u0440\u0435".

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