Korean text in templates and xml

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I am about to embark on putting Korean characters into TS and then using my presentation to generate xml files that are deployed to our ATG server.

I am looking for some suggestions on what the best method/practice is for this. I am thinking about having the characters be entered in one of these ways. (users entering content only speak and read English, content comes from outside source)

-use Visual Format on my fields and let the users paste the Korean characters in.

-use Adobe CS2, have the users paste the Korean into that page, then view source, copy the &xxxx; characters that it converts to, then paste it into the non-visual format fields

- any other suggestions?

What character encoding should I use for the xml? We are using xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" for our English, French, German and other languages.

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What character encoding should I use for the xml? We are using xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" for our English, French, German and other languages.

If you do not have any other considerations use UTF-8 for Korean as well then. Although it is possible to maintain
mixed character sets within same application you should have very serious reasons to do that

-use Visual Format on my fields and let the users paste the Korean characters in. -use Adobe CS2, have the users paste the Korean into that page, then view source, copy the &xxxx; characters that it converts to, then paste it into the non-visual format fields

Both methods will work. #2 is more portable, #1 has an advantage of being readable with the use of unicode-enabled software (if one can read Korean anyway).
We've actually tried it both ways (no CS2, we used our own tools) for non-Latin based languages and ultimately had chosen #1. Portability is mostly technical
issue, it can be dealt with. Translation services from the other hand are not very happy if you ask them to modify text that looks like "&x0036; &x43AE; ..."