Getting kumihan tables to work in Japanese documents

[Tami Settergren]

I'm a little unclear about how to get kumihan tables to work (specifically, the <NoLineBeginChar> statement).

I'm working in English Windows with the language set to Japanese. When I save a Japanese manual as a MIF, then open the MIF in Notepad as a UTF-8 file, the KumihanCatalog section is there and all the Japanese characters are correct. (If I open as ANSI, the Japanese characters are garbled.) But the <NoLineBeginChar> statements obviously don't work because the manual in Frame shows lines that begin with the illegal characters. I tried saving the text MIF file as UTF-8 and opening in Frame. The document looks fine, but the <NoLineBeginChar> statements still don't work.

The files were produced at a translation agency...I suppose they used a Japanese OS, which is why the kumihan tables are there.

So, do I also need to use a Japanese OS to get the kumihan tables to work, not just an English system with the language set to Japanese?

Thanks,

B250

[Michael_Müller-Hillebrand]

B250,

I would be interested to learn from your experience 😉

What version of FrameMaker are you using? From your UTF-8 experience I guess it should be FrameMaker 8 or 9, but please tell us anyway.

To simulate a Japanese OS without having it, you could switch the "system locale" of your machine to Japanese, at lest stuff like this made FrameMaker think it was installed on a Japanese OS in earlier versions:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Change-the-system-locale

- Michael

[Tami Settergren]

Hi Michael,

I'm using FrameMaker 8. I often have my system locale and language set to Japanese. Some Asian language features, such as Combined Fonts work, but the <NoLineBeginChar> function still doesn't work. So I'm stuck manually adjusting spacing to comply with Japanese line break rules...no fun!!

B250

[Harry@DTPW]

Hi Tami,

I know it was a long time ago... but did you find a good solution to this problem. I have a similar challenge and am currently fixing manually.

[Tami Settergren]

Hi Harry,

I did not, but now that you've reminded me I'm going to look at it again in FM 11. Thanks for the bump! I'll post here if I find a solution.

Tami