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DanielFletcher
Community Member
9 years ago

Japanese language support in Rise?

Hello! I'm interested in developing a course to be used in Japan (and likely elsewhere). Any hope that Rise will soon support Japanese? Unfortunately the course is likely to occur this spring, so ...
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DavidTait
Super Hero
4 years ago

Hi all,

I've been asked look in to the localisation of a series of Rise courses in to Japanese. Has anyone done this and are there any pitfalls to be aware of?

For example, do any of the fonts that are built in to Rise support Japanese characters or will I need to load a specific font?

If I update the labels to Japanese, will they all behave etc?

Thanks in advance.

  • MarkPARKINSON's avatar
    MarkPARKINSON
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Very good chance that Rize existing fonts do not support a double-byte character set. With any of this, test, test and then test again. Let me know if you need further resource. I can share some contacts.

    Thanks,

    Mark

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  • AngeloCruz's avatar
    AngeloCruz
    Staff
    4 years ago

    Hi David! I've heard some authors were able to successfully translate their Rise courses into Japanese. If you follow Alyssa's tips, you should be off to a good start.

    The current font set in Rise doesn't have official support for Japanese languages, you may need to download a language-specific custom font. You may search the Google Fonts website for the fonts you need.