Adobe RoboHelp 7: Unicode enabled – supports 35 languages

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I am back after a short break. There was a lot of launch related stuff that had to be completed after RoboHelp 7 and RoboHelp Server 7 ship and then it was time for me to take a break as well.

OK, today I shall talk about a couple of features that would be of interest to people who are involved in producing content in multiple languages.

The world is shrinking and businesses are now becoming truly global with markets all across the world. To cater to global customers, the product, including documentation needs to be customized as per local market. This means that there is a greater need to translate documentation in different languages. Adobe RoboHelp 7 and Adobe RoboHelp Server 7 will help you author, manage, translate and publish your content in multiple languages.

Adobe RoboHelp 7 is now Unicode complaint, meaning thereby that you can use RoboHelp 7 to design your Help System / Knowledge base in any language. To be precise in all languages those are written Left to Right and Top to Bottom (LRTB). RoboHelp 7 however has built –in supports for 35 languages which include Eastern European and Asian languages. When we mention support for 35 languages, it essentially means that RoboHelp is pre set for producing Content for all these 35 languages – you do not need to worry about skins, setting up dictionary, spell check etc. When you select a language in the Project settings, everything gets automatically set up – skins, dictionaries etc. Please refer to the table below that summarizes the Language Support built in RoboHelp 7.

Languages

Authoring and editing support

Dictionary

Spell Check

Thesaurus

Auto Correct

English, Danish , Dutch , French , German , Italian , Norwegian , Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

Yes

UK English, Canadian French, Swiss German

Yes

Finnish, Catalan, Russian, Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Greek, Turkish , Turkey), Hungarian, Croatian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovenian

Yes

Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese

Yes

Unicode feature in RoboHelp also allows you to have content in multiple languages in a single topic, Glossary, Index and TOC. This is really helpful when you want to create a single page that caters to people in different geographies. You can see a real use case in the Customer Care sample that comes along with RoboHelp 7. Also, you can have different topics in different languages.

Apart from this, RoboHelp 7 now can be installed in four different languages – English, French, German and Japanese. While we developed this, we made sure that the projects are binary compatible – meaning thereby that an author who uses German version of RoboHelp can send across the project to a colleague in Japan who can work upon this project in Japanese version of RoboHelp 7.

Enough of talking – let’s see this in action

Click on _Start _in the Captivate Demonstration above to start the same. It is an interactive demo and you will be required to click on _Next _and _Continue _buttons during the demonstration.

Coming up next – RoboHelp 7 – Support for Translation workflows.

– Akshay

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