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6. A folder is created for each language you select, and within each language folder is an XML
file for that language. For more information, see
“Publishing and deploying multilanguage
text” on page 374 .
7. Send the published FLA file and XML folders and files to your translators. You can author
in your native language, and let them make the translation. They can use translation
software directly in the XML files or in the FLA file.
“Translating text in the Strings panel
or an XML file” on page 379 .
8. When you receive the translations from your translators, import the translated XML files
back into the FLA file. For more information, see
“Importing an XML file into the Strings
panel” on page 380 .
Selecting languages for translation
You can select as many as 100 languages that can appear on the Stage and in the Strings panel
for translation. Each language you select becomes a column in the Strings panel. You can
change the Stage language to show the text on the Stage in any of the languages you selected.
The selected language appears when you publish or test the file.
When selecting languages, you can use any of the languages provided in the pop-up menu as
well as any other Unicode-supported language.
To select a language:
1. Select Window > Other Panels > Strings to open the Strings panel.
2. Click the Settings button to show the Settings dialog box.
3. Add a language by doing one of the following:
■
In the Languages text box, highlight a language you want to select, and click the
Add button.
■
If the language does not appear in the Languages text box, in the blank field below the
Languages text box, type a language code in the format
xx ( The the language code is
from ISO 639-1.) Then click the Add button.
After you click the Add button, the language appears in the Active Languages field.
4.
Repeat step 3 until you have added all the languages you want.
5.
Select a default language from the Default runtime language pop-up menu. This language
appears on systems that do not have one of the active languages you selected.
6. If you want to load an XML file for the languages from a different URL at runtime, type
the URL in the URL text field.