Thanks for the ideas. The final text ends up in an XML export. We see Hindi in
the Excel spreadsheet that the translators are providing, but it ends up as
scrambled Roman characters in Filemaker. I think though that those characters
will end up looking right if I set the font to a Hindi one. One
Hi Colin
Are you trying to use Hindi for the FileMaker screen text, or in the fields
where the user adds data?
Option 1
I add a global field example _Text Header to the layout using a "Merge
Field", then I use a calculation to equal the value assigned and assign
that value from a field with the
Made a discovery. Copy and paste can work if you paste into the right program/
It seems that fonts that can show Roman, Chinese, Japanese, and Thai, cannot
show Hindi. The solution may be to change the font to a Hindi one just when
using Hindi, and leave it alone for all other languages.
Not sure if it would work, and I have no way to try it, but I think you
could set up the spreadsheet as an odbc datasource and pull from it using
lc database functionality. Pretty sure that part work, but whether the
hindi would arrive intact is another question.
On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 2:00 PM,
Nobody replied to this question, so here’s an easier one:
You’re looking at an Excel spreadsheet, and can clearly see Hindi text in the
cells. How do you get that text out of Excel? Copy and past doesn’t work, nor
does exporting Unicode text.
> On Dec 2, 2014, at 7:29 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:
Some of you here are expert at Filemaker and also non-Roman languages. Any idea
how to use Hindi text inside Filemaker? It seems to cope with Chinese,
Japanese, and Thai, but apparently not Hindi. The text gets converted to
scrambled Roman characters.
