I'm talking about when you write your text while making a menu using the DVDA generator, it will only write in english while Vegas will write using whatever language you have installed...

I have not encountered these problems with international characters. The only thing I can think of is that perhaps you didn't switch the font (in the "Text Bar") to one that supports those characters... By default the fonts chosen for text objects are based on information from the theme you are using, and are not the international fonts.

There is a lack of support for internattional languages. Unicode fonts does not work properly in DVDA. Unicode fonts does not work in Vegas Video 3 and neither in Vegas 4. How hard can it be to add support for unicode fonts; it is already built in the operating system, Windows XP.

> Unicode fonts does not work properly in DVDA. Unicode fonts does not work in Vegas Video 3 and neither in Vegas 4.

It's possible to paste Unicode text into DVDA text boxes but not to type it in directly. Vegas 3 and 4 handle Unicode text OK in the Text generator but no Sonic Foundry application understands Unicode file names.

The text box hiccup is similar to the problem with Postscript fonts: they can be specified in a theme but not chosen directly from the font list.

What a mess! If every aspect of Vegas' development were handled this carelessly, nothing would work at all.

Thanks barleycorn, I didn't know you could paste unicode text into DVDA and still see it.

Sofo, I think you should have this fixed for the next update...

Tomadonna, what version of DVD Architect are you running? There was a problem in the Beta with international characters, but the final version should work fine.

In tomadonna's absence perhaps I could take the liberty of describing the problems.

1. Fire up DVD Architect. The Font-Name for the Default theme is Arial and we'll stick with that as it includes the Cyrillic range.

2. Select the Title object, click Edit Text on the Text bar, switch the language to Russian (using the Language bar or via the Control Panel).

3. Type away. For me, Latin rather than the expected Cyrillic characters appear (my default input language is set as English (United Kingdom)).

4. Using Character Map copy some Cyrillic characters to the clipboard.

5. Back in DVD Architect paste them into the Title text box. The characters appear correctly in the text box but not in the Navigation drop-down list (each is replaced by a question mark).

DVD Architect Build 160; Windows XP Professional SP1.

SonicSteve - I'm using the demo of version 1.0, not the beta. The demo should reflect how the full version works, right?

OK, I see what you guys are talking about and agree that this is a bug. We'll make sure to have it fixed for 1.0a. Thanks!

> We'll make sure to have it fixed for 1.0a

Excellent. Any chance the font list can also be sorted out (i.e. not filter Postscript fonts) for 1.0a?

It's less likely that Postscript font support will make it into 1.0a, but we're looking into it.

> It's less likely that Postscript font support will make it into 1.0a, but we're looking into it.

Thanks. It's easy enough to circumvent the limitations by customising themes anyway so this isn't so pressing.

Latest update - we hope to have postscript fonts working in 1.0a.