Formatting World Languages

As XSL Formatter is a Unicode application, the languages can be formatted as far as there are suitable fonts installed on your PC. XSL Formatter now supports HAT, CJK. Find amazing potential for multilingual publications!

Solution for Multilingual Publishing by Unicode and XSL (White Paper)

Today, it becomes easy to prepare multilingual documents in XML and Unicode. The layout and style of XML may be easily specified by XSL-FO. XSL Formatter is able to format multilingual XSL-FO documents that contains English, many Western Scripts, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Simplifies Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and Thai scripts.

This is a brief summary of problems in multilingual formatting, and explains how Unicode and XSL is applicable to the multilingual formatting.

"Solution for Multilingual Publishing by Unicode and XSL" (PDF file 700KB) [Updated on January 2nd, 2004]

This paper is written as XML file and formatted by XSL Formatter, and it is printed to PDF using PDF Output function. This file will be one sample that shows the multilingual function of XSL Formatter.

Multilingual Formatting Examples by XSL Formatter

The formatting results of 39 languages are shown in this sample. The sample includes many alphabets all over the world, Western, Cyrillic, Greek, CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), HAT (Hebrew, Arabic, Thai).

This example is prepared as XML document, transformed into XSL-FO, formatted and printed to PDF by XSL Formatter V3.1.

PDF file generated by XSL Formatter (955KB)
XSL-FO format source file
If you have installed XSL Formatter on your PC, you may format this sample directly via internet. Please specify this url; "./foml/Format39.fo" in the Document combo box at Document/Stylesheet dialog of XSL Formatter GUI.
XSL-FO format ZIP archive

Please remark that you need appropriate font for these 39 languages in order to format them correctly. Especially, the following fonts are specified to CJK examples.

Language	Font
Simplified Chinese	SimSun
Traditional Chinese	MingLiU
Japanese	MS Mincho
Korean	Baekmuk Batang
Thai	Angsana New

The following are list of 39 languages and language codes.

Language Code	Language	Language Code	Language	Language Code	Language
ar	Arabic	el	Greek	pl	Polish
bg	Bulgarian	he	Hebrew	pt	Portuguese
zh-CN	Chinese (Simplified)	hu	Hungarian	ro	Romanian
zh-TW	Chinese (Traditional)	is	Icelandic	ru	Russian
hr	Croatian	id	Indonesian	sr	Serbian
cs	Czech	it	Italian	sk	Slovak
da	Danish	ja	Japanese	sl	Slovenian
nl	Dutch	kk	Kazakh	es	Spanish
en	English	ko	Korean	sv	Swedish
et	Estonian	lv	Latvian	th	Thai
fi	Finnish	lt	Lithuanian	tr	Turkish
fr	French	no	Norwegian	uk	Ukrainian
de	German	fa	Persian (Farsi)	vi	Vietnamese

Multilingual Samples

Antenna House XSL Formatter can format any kind of international languages those are supported by Unicode.

This shows a formatting example of multiple languages by Unicode.	XSL-FO Sample PDF
This sample shows comparisons of words in English, Japanese, Thai, Hebrew, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean.	XSL-FO Sample PDF
This is an Arabic sample. The difference by the font, the transformation of the letterform, and justification by kashida are used.	XSL-FO Sample PDF