Ektron® eWebEditPro Developer's Reference Guide

Accented Characters
Using the Languages Sample
Modifying the Language of eWebEditPro
eWebEditPro content can be in any language supported by the browser, which is
largely controlled by Windows regional settings. The content can contain multiple
languages simultaneously. The HTML languages sample (http://localhost/
ewebeditpro5/samples/html/languages/languages.htm)
demonstrates a page with several languages.
For accented characters, the user can select from the list of special and extended
characters available on the standard toolbar (see below) or type from the
keyboard.
Also, non-English keyboards usually have the characters printed.
You can enter special characters with an English keyboard (using Alt keys) using
the IME (input editor). See Windows Control Panel > Regional Options > Input
Locales.
The following eWebEditPro sample screen illustrates how the locale file affects
the editor.
Start > Programs > Ektron>ewebeditpro5 > Samples > HTML Samples >
Languages
Select the language of your choice. Then, move the cursor over any toolbar
button and notice that the tooltip appears in the selected language. Also, if you
click an icon that displays a dialog box (such as Insert Picture), the dialog box
appears in the selected language.
Displaying Menus and Dialogs in a non-European Language
If you specify an Asian or Middle Eastern language locale for eWebEditPro, and
you are running a European (for example, English) version of Windows, the non-
European characters may appear as question marks (?) instead of the ideogram.
Similarly, accented Latin (that is, European) characters may appear without their
accent marks on an Asian version of Windows.
These problems occur because the language’s character set is not loaded in the
client PC’s Windows operating system. Any Unicode character that does not have
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