Overall, very successful, but just a few things to remember:
- The xml-lang attribute must be set in EVERY topic file. It's not enough to set it on the map and expect it to filter down. So for the French files we have for example:
This causes the DITA-OT to use translated versions of "Related concepts", "Related reference" etc. for link titles.
- Open the HHC, HHK and HHP files in a good text editor (I used Ultraedit) and save them as ASCII/ANSI. This is necessary because the HTMLHelp compiler does not support Unicode. In particular, before converting my HHK file, accented characters in the Index appeared incorrectly.
- I don't know what effect it had specifically, but I set the Language option in the HHP file to French :
Language=0x40c French (France)
You can set this with the Help Workshop:
1. Double-click the Language setting in the [OPTIONS] list.
2. In International Settings, choose the language.
3. Recompile.
