Using the Strings panel to author multilanguage text

The new Strings panel provides a simplified workflow for authoring multilanguage text. The general workflow steps are as follows.

• Author a FLA file in one language. Any text that you want to enter in another language must be in a dynamic or input text field.
• In the Strings panel Settings dialog box, select the languages you want to include and select one of them as the default language.
• After you select a language, a column for the language is added to the Strings panel. When you save, test, or publish the application, a folder with an XML file is created for each language. See Selecting languages for translation.
• In the Strings panel, encode each text string with an ID. See Adding strings to the Strings panel.
• Publish the application.
• A folder is created for each language you selected, and within each language folder is an XML file for that language. See Publishing and deploying multilanguage text.
• Send the published FLA file and XML folders and files to your translators. You can author in your native language, then leave the translating up to them. They can use translation software directly in the XML files or in the FLA file. Translating text in the Strings panel or an XML file.
• When you receive the translations from your translators, import the translated XML files back into the FLA file. See Importing an XML file into the Strings panel.

For a sample of a multilanguage document, see Developing multilingual content.