Using Multi-lingual text in FusionCharts

 

FusionCharts allows you to use multi-lingual (UTF-8) characters on the charts. Shown below is an example where we've used names using various languages on the chart:

The XML for the above chart is :

<graph rotatenames='0' xaxisname='Ελλάς' yaxisname='шаяьеду Y-Axis' caption='Ελλάς' subCaption='рыщц' numdivlines='4' lineThickness='3' pieborderColor='FFFFFF' pieFillAlpha='95' pieRadius='95'>
   <set name='ประเทศไทย' value='90' color='AFD8F8' isSliced='1'/>
   <set name='ישראל' value='95' color='F6BD0F' isSliced='1'/>
   <set name='Россия' value='91' color='8BBA00' isSliced='1'/>
   <set name='Україна' value='65' color='A66EDD' isSliced='1'/>
   <set name='الاماراتالعربيةالمتحدة ' value='88' color='F984A1' isSliced='1'/>
   <set name='خوشآمدید' value='30' color='B2FF66' isSliced='1'/>
   <set name='مرحباً' value='56' color='ffd1aa' isSliced='1'/>

   <trendlines>
      <line value='85' color='FF9900' thickness='1' />
  </trendlines>
</graph>
The XML is using texts in various languages (put in bold). To make the charts show these languages (and many other languages not included here) you have to store the file in UTF-8 Unicode Encoding Format with proper BOM mark. With out BOM mark the chart may somewhat look like the chart below :
 

You can use multi-lingual characters in all the charts in FusionCharts suite. However, any rotated text on chart cannot show non-English characters. That is, if you want to use multi-lingual characters, you'll need to show horizontal x-axis names and y-axis names without being rotated (using <graph rotateNames='0' ..>).

FusionCharts supports only left-to-right languages as of now. It doesn't have native support for right-to-left languages like Hebrew. So, if you want to use Hebrew with FusionCharts, you'll have to programmatically change the text sequence and then provide the data to FusionCharts.

 
How to use multi-lingual characters?

To use multi-lingual characters on the chart, you necessarily need to use dataURL method. dataXML method would give "Invalid XML" error when using multi-lingual characters on certain occasions.

If you're using a physical XML file, make sure it's saved in UTF-8 format with proper BOM mark.