Foreign Languages

[somedude]

Do you have to specify somehow the type of characters your going to be using to have valid markup?If so does anyone know of a good reference page or maybe have an example if it's something small?I have a site that I need to translate into Japanese, Chinese, etc..thanks for any help

[Guest FirefoxRocks]

If you encode your page in UTF-8 or UTF-16, the characters should show up fine. The HTML tags and attributes are the same though.

[somedude]

If you encode your page in UTF-8 or UTF-16, the characters should show up fine. The HTML tags and attributes are the same though.

thanks

[somedude]

Hi, I have some problems.. I tried this:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> 

and japanese / german characters don't show up. is there something wrong with my code? or is UTF-8 wrong?

[Guest FirefoxRocks]

In addition to telling the browser that the page is encoded in UTF-8, you also have to make sure it is actually UTF-8.If you are using Notepad, when you go to the Save box, make sure encoding is set to UTF-8 not ANSI. If that doesn't work, try Notepad++ or encoding the page in UTF-16 (I don't remember how to do that, maybe it's called Unicode.)

Edited August 17, 2009 by FirefoxRocks