Character problem and Videostudio 11+

[Christian Alfredsson]

Thanks for trying.

[weaver]

Hi

I have the same problem with some french characters

But the problem only appears with my computer with Vista . It is working fine with XP

é is working but è is not ...
à is not working
ê is not working to


Even when trying with ALT 138 ALT 133 etc

It is a big problem for titles

How to do to have the corrects characters ?

You can do the titles in W MOVIE MAKER (it supports all foreign characters) and mix to your ULEAD work.. This is the way how I am working (also with Russian characters).

[Christian Alfredsson]

I will have to do a few hundred subtitels to my movie. Don't sounds like good workaround.

[weaver]

Of course not and this method was not supposed to be for subtitles, just for titles, or several text inlays.
I have no idea why in InterVideo house they are not willing to support those foreign characters

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[micononos]

According the ULEAD Help Desk they are not going to support characters besides the standard ASCII set.

It is very interesting because the 3D COOL supports more foreign characters than the VS does, but no-one is fully compatible with Windows character sets unfortunately....

Thanks for you answer.

Ulead is selling a French version for video studio since beginning of june and i was expecting it will work with all french characters !!.

In the US version, if foreign characters aren't working ... may be .. But in the French version, French language must work ??
Don't you think ?

[weaver]

According the ULEAD Help Desk they are not going to support characters besides the standard ASCII set.

It is very interesting because the 3D COOL supports more foreign characters than the VS does, but no-one is fully compatible with Windows character sets unfortunately....

Thanks for you answer.

Ulead is selling a French version for video studio since beginning of june and i was expecting it will work with all french characters !!.

In the US version, if foreign characters aren't working ... may be .. But in the French version, French language must work ??
Don't you think ?

I do not understand exactly their philosophy.
I personally use 5 languages on my PC and with most programs there is no problem, the character sets are available and with Movie Maker works everything fine.
Why some graphic programs (not only ULEAD and COREL) do not support all characters available on the PC itself is for me a mystery.
I expect from all my programs, when I already can switch among the languages that they are also supported.
It looks that for many software houses this is not even a dream.

[weaver]

Even this WEB forum does not support those foreign characters:

čšťžľ
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[Christian Alfredsson]

I talked with support today and they do not support that character until a swedish version comes.

I have talked to my reseller and got an refund.

[sjj1805]

Interestingly the characters work on this forum when I am on my own computer at home. Windows XP SP2.

Å Æ Ç ¢X ¡Ó ² ³
å æ ç è

It seems strange that when on my Works Computer using NT4 SP6 - despite being able to type them in they get inexplicably converted when pressing the submit button.

[weaver]

Interestingly the characters work on this forum when I am on my own computer at home. Windows XP SP2.

Å Æ Ç ¢X ¡Ó ² ³
å æ ç è

It seems strange that when on my Works Computer using NT4 SP6 - despite being able to type them in they get inexplicably converted when pressing the submit button.

It is the same with W XP, it is enough to submit the reply and the characters are converted. It works always only once when I enter them into the system. the second time is already converted. (The same is also with swedish characters.)

I do not undestand what has this to do with the language version of the video editor. ULEAD does not want to allow us to write correctly world wide the swedish, slavic, hungarian or greek etc. names?

(We are on ULEAD forum I do not want to mention the competitor who solved this problem already..... and they support even in US version all characters which are supported by Windows. )

[sjj1805]

Have you checked the region settings in Windows Control panel?
I do not think this is a Ulead problem but something related to the actual computer being used.

Why else could I write those characters on this user forum from home but not from work? I suspect the same issue applies to VideoStudio.

[weaver]

Have you checked the region settings in Windows Control panel?
I do not think this is a Ulead problem but something related to the actual computer being used.

Why else could I write those characters on this user forum from home but not from work? I suspect the same issue applies to VideoStudio.

Hi

I daily use at least 3 different languages on my PCs (on all of them) and as you see the characters from the original changes everytime when we submit a new reply. (This means somewhere in the forum there is a bottleneck in the character sets). In another forums (mainly not on US based servers) there is no problem with them.

And those characters are not supported only in few programs (one of those is ULEAD), and because I am multilangual I am always searching for software which supports those language variations, unfortunately with ULEAD I had not that much luck......

[Christian Alfredsson]

I tried everything they told me to do in support. And yes, I installed an english version of xp to.

[Ken Berry]

And I have one computer with VS11 and Vista, and another with VS10, VS9 and VS8 on it running XP Pro, and I *don't* have any problem with repeatedly using European, Cyrillic or for that matter Greek, characters either in this forum, VS or other programs. And yet I have done nothing special of which I am aware with either computer, to adjust anything to do with the language except to make sure, on installation of Windows, that I chose to install English, French, Portuguese and Spanish language sets -- though not Greek or Russian -- as part of Windows.

[sjj1805]

It is not a VideoStudio problem. It has to be related to the computer being used. Again let me cite this user forum.

It is a PHPBB forum using PHP technology.
My home and my workplace are a mere 5 miles apart - a bare speck on a worldwide map. So why can I enter these À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê
characters here at home but not at my workplace.

The conclusion I have is that I have set up my home computer myself with no special settings apart from the odd tweak here and there to prevent virus attacks and interference caused by my grandchildren!

The computer at work was set up by our I.T. department who have locked the machines down to prevent interference such as someone installing their own software or running unwanted applications. So they must have made some setting somewhere - probably in the regional settings - but that's just a guess, which causes the characters to alter upon pressing the [Submit Post] button.

It cannot be the PHPBB software otherwise it would happen from home as well as from work, therefore it must be the computer I am working on.

From this it follows that the problem being encountered with these titles in VideoStudio will also be related to that individual computer and not the VideoStudio software. What we need to try and determine is what is that setting.