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Using a Western keyboard to enter Asian characters on the Stage

With Flash MX 2004, you can enter Asian characters on the Stage using a standard Western keyboard by using Input Method Editors (IMEs). Flash supports more than two dozen different IMEs.

For example, if you want to create a website that will reach a broad range of Asian viewers, you can use a standard Western keyboard to create text in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean simply by changing the input method editor.

In previous versions of Flash, it was not possible to input Korean characters using a standard Western keyboard. With Flash MX 2004, you can enter text in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese characters simply by toggling the IME from Japanese and Chinese character input to Korean character input.

Note: This affects only text input on the Stage, not text entered in the Actions panel. This feature is available for all supported Windows operating systems and Macintosh OSX.

To toggle between Japanese and Chinese character input and Korean character input:

  1. Select Edit > Preferences and click the Editing tab in the Preferences dialog box.
  2. Under Input Language Settings, select one of the following options:
    • Select Chinese and Japanese to input Chinese and Japanese characters from a Western keyboard. (This is the default setting, and it should be selected for Western languages as well.)
    • Select Korean to input Korean characters from a Western keyboard.
  3. Click OK.
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