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July 23, 2008
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Localizing Robohelp 7 Project

  • July 23, 2008
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Greetings,

I recently created a Robohelp 7 webhelp project. The source files were sent out to be localized in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and Korean.
I know how to change the user interface to another language but how do I create localized versions of the project. Do I somehow import the topics for each language into the same project....or do you just dump the translated files into the a copied directory structure where each language stands alone. If anyone has done this I certainly would appreciate help on how to do this and what the best approach is...if indeed there is more than one way to proceed. Thanks ahead of time.
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Peter Grainge
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September 10, 2008
The ZoomSearch page needs an update for RH7 I discovered today. Seems in RH7 the two JS files that get imported should not be deleted. Leave them in and it all works.

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September 10, 2008
Kathy, I found this thread on the Chinese problem in RH7 WebHelp. I hope it helps; Peter's verdict was to report the bug and possibly integrate ZoomSearch. I believe his site, http://www.grainge.org, explains how to integrate the two, and he has said it is a low-cost and simple solution for better searching in RH outputs.
Peter Grainge
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September 10, 2008
Hope Ben won't mind me popping in just to check you have applied both patches to RH7.

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September 10, 2008
Hi Ben,

The Chinese equivalent of "No topics found" message is coming up for everything. All other languages are okay, in fact it works well.

Your help is greatly appreciated.
September 10, 2008
What are the symptoms? Are any results coming up at all, or just the Chinese equivalent of the "No topics found" message? Or is something else altogether happening?

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September 10, 2008
Hi Ben,

I have another issue but only with the Chinese help file. The search function does not work correctly in the Chinese help file; does not find the correct topic. Any clues on this. We have a deadline Friday. It works in the other languages (Portuguese, French, English, Spanish, Italian, and Korean).

Appreciate your help. kathy
September 8, 2008
Correct, and you're welcome.
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September 2, 2008
Hi Ben,

Well the HHC, HHK and GLO problem is solved. A line needed to be removed at the top of the HHC and HHK files. They were all saved with UTF-8 signature.

As far as the Korean, the output files look okay. It is the topic(source files) within Robohelp where the characters look like little boxes. Do I need to care about this if the output looks okay? These are all separate projects.

I guess I would need to follow the directions in the link you provided to item 10 to enable the view of the characters in Asian languages. Is that correct?

Thanks again Ben.
September 2, 2008
Kathy,

I'm willing to take a look at one of the problem projects if there aren't any privacy or security problems with that. Contact me via this page if it is feasible. This sounds like there may be something in your computer settings that's missing, but the only way to tell is if we test it on a comparable machine. Are you using Windows XP SP2?
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September 2, 2008
It's me again. I need to clarify something.
I said the .hhk, .hhc, and glo files look okay and they do. However, when I open the project before I compile, the special characters do not look okay...same when I compile. Just wanted to clarify that. I might have led you astray.

The translated topic text is okay. It's just the toc, index and glossary where the special characters are wrong.