Using multilingual characters on the chart
If you cater to an international audience, wouldn't you like your charts in the reports and dashboards to be in the language of your audience? FusionCharts Suite allows you to use multilingual (UTF-8) characters on the charts, so your charts can go international too.
To use multilingual characters on the chart, you need to use UTF-8 encoded XML and the XML file/stream requires a Byte Order Mark (BOM) stamp to be present as the very first 3 bytes of the file. BOM is an indicator that the file contains UTF-8 encoded strings. Adding the BOM stamp is simple, and it depends upon the method you are using to provide data to the chart.
Adding the BOM stamp in the Data URL method
As we learned in the Chapter 1, Introducing FusionCharts, the method by which we provide a URL to the chart to get data from (either a static XML file or data relayed by a stream) is called the Data URL method. This is the method we have been using throughout this chapter to pass...
