User Manual

Considerations for International Character Support
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Additional Tips and Limitations for Working with International Characters
• You must install your Avid editing application after you set up your system for international
character support.
• If you export files from a FIGS (French, Italian, German, or Spanish) operating system that
contain certain diacritical marks (for example, a capital A, I, or E with circumflex), they
might not import or display correctly on an English operating system. When you attempt to
import the file, your system displays the following error message:
“File: [File name and location] not found.”
followed by:
“EXCEPTION: SYS ERROR, status: 2, msg: The system cannot find the file specified.”
To work around this limitation, retype the file name (with the same diacritical marks if
desired) and then import it from the English OS.
• If you use New Change input (Traditional Chinese), you cannot use certain key
combinations to form Chinese characters in user, project, bin, clip, and sequence names.
When you press Enter to execute these key combinations, a question mark appears in the
text. The following are examples of non-functional combinations: R + Y, S + D, R + J, F +
U, Q + U + Q + U.
• You might see problems with certain combinations of Japanese and Roman characters in
user names.
Avoid mixing Roman and Chinese or Japanese characters in user names. Your system might
generate error messages or extra user names with incorrect text strings.
In an Interplay workgroup environment, use Roman characters for user names. Avid
Interplay workgroups do not support Chinese and Japanese user names.
• Do not use fonts that have an “@” sign at the start of the font name when naming Avid
elements. These fonts are intended for text that displays vertically. Letters or characters
might appear on their side in elements such as bin and clip names.
• When you are using diacritical marks, exporting a bin as AFE with the default name might
cause MediaLog to freeze. The resulting files have incorrect filenames.
To work around this limitation, avoid using the default name when exporting a file as AFE,
ALE, or Tab Delimited. Rename the file you are exporting in the Export dialog box.