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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 we don't have a ton of time. Any idea when this might be possible in Rise?
Thanks!
Dan Fletcher
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Hi,
Is this issue with the Japanese text still the same? We tried uploading an XLF with JP translations and nothing changes. Does it need to be copy/pasted manually?
Hi Ashley,
Sorry to hear you're having trouble importing your translation file. Would you be willing to share the XLF file with our team so we can take a closer look?
If that works for you, you can send it to us privately by clicking here.
Hi Articulate Rise team, I am also seeking your help on Japanese language, I copied/pasted the Japanese text in Rise but the Kanji characters end up incorrect, that's an issue of font. So I went for 'custom scheme' where Japanese font can be uploaded, however, when I uploaded the right font successfully and applied it to the course, there is no change, the font is still as before.
Could you please help advise? Thank you very much.
Crystal
Hello, Crystal. Can you have a look at this workflow for getting non-latin characters to display correctly in your courses? If that doesn't help, we'll be standing by here, ready to help further!
Ashley Terwilliger, is there an update on Japanese font support in the Rize or Articulate platforms? Do you have active users in Japan using it in a fully localized environment yet?
Thank you in advance,
Mark Parkinson
Hi Mark!
Have you attempted to localize your Rise 360 course to Japanese? Here are a few helpful resources:
- Translate your course following these 4 easy steps.
- Follow this guide to translate the labels in your course.
- This article explains how to get non-latin characters to display correctly in your course.
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.
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
Mark Parkinson
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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.
Can anyone help me to fix the text break here for Rise course In Japanese language. See attached screenshot for reference. This looks fine in one line in editing mode.
Has anyone found a reliable font (apart from Arial unicode) that works reliably for Japanese so characters all take up the appropriate space...I have tried all in-built fonts and imported some as well...and nothing seems to work...
Hi Chris,
I recently produced a Japanese module with all RISE translations (done that manually). I used the font called Meiryo
I hope this helps!
Hi,
This is what I am experiencing with font spacing...is your different...could you give a screenshot so I could take a quick look?
Chris
