When it comes to optimizing your Flash 5 movie for localization, planning is essential. Even if you don't foresee localization in your movie's future, adhering to a localization strategy offers benefits for anyone working on the same movie and ensures that the process will run smoothly should the need for localization arise.

This article discuss strategies and procedures that you can use to optimize your Flash movie for localization. The article covers the following topics:

	Documenting your movie for localization
	Managing content for localization
	Including localized text in a movie
	Summary

Note: This article applies to Macromedia Flash 5. Macromedia Flash MX offers new features for handling localized text, including Unicode support. In Flash MX, choose Help > Using Flash and search for the "Unicode text encoding in Flash movies" topic.

Stephanie Gowin Stephanie Gowin is a senior instructional designer for Macromedia. 18 June 2001 Flash, Flash 5, localize, text, foreign, encode, character set, design, internationalize, globalize, plan 9898