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chinese characters – copy and paste problem
hi everybody,
I have a problem here with chinese characters. System (OSX) is ready for chinese. I can type chinese in openoffice. I can type chinese in Aftereffects (6.5).
Just when I want to copy and paste from openoffice to Aftereffects, some of the charcaters don’t come in correctly (displayed as ‘?’). As I don’t knoa all the cahracters I am dependent on copy and paste beyond convinience.
Same problem occurs when coming from ‘.doc’, or ‘.txt’ files.
any suggestions?
xiexie
Gunnar -
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Bu hao.Bu hao.
Sorry I can’t directly solve the copy-paste issue, but are you able to paste into Photoshop then save as TGA (or TIF) with alpha, then import the TGA into AE?
Of course, this wouldn’t be useful if you wanted to use AE’s text capabilities.
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Here is possibility –
In the modern world (i.e. for computers/mobile phones, etc), there a a few variations of Chinese – eg. Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Pin-Yin?, etc. Perhaps what you have in your version of AE is not compatible with that in OpenOffice.
That is what happened with two of my mobile phones – one Nokia, and one made-in-China ‘iPhone’ lookalike…on the former (surprise), all characters of a greeting came out fine, whereas the one made-in-China showed a couple of ‘square boxes’ for some characters.
The solution, maybe, is to download all the Chinese versions available for your AE, and have another try.
hope that helps,
Thomas Leong
A Chinese who doesn’t read/write/speak Mandarin Chinese 🙂 -
I had this problem the other day going from an RTF file to AE CS3. I found a simple work around for the lack of characters though.
When you paste it in, change the font to one of the OSX standard chinese fonts. Hei always worked for me.
Hope this helps.
Rob
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