<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/air/">Adobe AIR</a>, the SDK & runtime which has become the popular choice for building desktop-enabled web applications, has been updated with enhanced support for internalization. With <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/air/">AIR v1.1</a>, Adobe has bumped the number of supported languages to ten including Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Spanish & Brazilian Portuguese and included support for double-byte keyboard input.


<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/air/"><img src="http://blog.reybango.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/rb_air-fresh-chinese-300x213.png" alt="rb_air-fresh-chinese" title="rb_air-fresh-chinese" width="300" height="213" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-261" /></a>
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Other notable enhancements include:

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	<li>Support for 64-bit editions of Microsoft Vista</li>
	<li>API enhancements to report disk space availability</li>
	<li>Ability to determine if the OS can support transparent windows</li>

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The <a href="http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/air/releasenotes.html">full release notes for Adobe AIR v1.1</a> provide more details about the features and changes in this update.