Does the user have a choice to change this - where would they see the font
name in your software? Would the font name be written in their native
language?
I am guessing for font names, some would be just like, or a lot like the
English version simply because they never had a word for it previously. But
it would mean transliterating into the native alphabet in the cases for
languages that don't share the english alphabet (e.g. Russian).
I think if this is a major product, then your company needs to outsource the
conversion of all the labels into appropriate translations/transliterations
into all of the languages you plan on supporting.
If you do not have such resources, I think you won't be able to figure it
out in all cases, so just stick with calling it Helvetica.
"Dave" <da*******@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi All,
Don't know if anyone has ever come across this but was just wondering.
Am programming something to be used in a number of countires and was
asking regarding Fonts. I have a page to printout that has to be in
"Helvetica" now if this program is installed in Russia for instance, I
can't see them calling it "Helvetica". Does anyone know if this is the
case and what can be done when fonts are hard coded into the software?
Thanks
Dave