Forum Moderators: open
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="kr">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=EUC-KR">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="ko">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF8">
i've also seen just this
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=EUC-KR">
any thoughts please would be greatly appreciated
Vimes.
Although Google Korea seems to get away with UTF-8 encoding, most of the sites I've seen use the euc-kr charset.
The safe way forward looks like this:
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="ko">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=euc-kr">
If you wanted to be even safer set the language in the
<html><html lang="ko">
Anyway thanks for clarifying the situation.
Vimes.
You at least need to have the character encoding set to comply with the W3C guidelines. The language tags are more of a courtesy. Some browsers will automatically switch encoding when they see these tags which saves your user from having to manually switch encoding to view the page properly.
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="ko">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=euc-kr">If you wanted to be even safer set the language in the <html> tag like this:
<html lang="ko">
yup. go with ko and euc-kr.
utf-8 won't cut it.
Note though: I wouldn't necessary use Google as the gauge either. As google here is not a big factor right now (or will be for a while it seems). It does have search result distribution in some portals, but not as the first priority (web search is not the most popular search here.... knowledge search is. Search for other threads about that...tough to explain briefly).
Just do you're basic SEO stuff, as that is good common sense, but dont' really sweat it too much otherwise. Yahoo is your best target for SEO...but yahoo is only third in this market overall...and not even for web search.
If its just a matter of setting up a korean version of your site...and getting whatever exposure/business you happen to get...then SEO with some tightly controlled PPC is fine.
If you are serious about the Korean market... I would NOT put high expectaions on SEO (if ANY).
But to be dead honest, I hate to be teh bubble burster, but I wouldn't expect any signifant return if you are doing just SEO. or PPC even (PPC would be your best for immediacy, but that will get pricey.) This depends on product too, of course, but generally speaking.
There is no way around it. You have to have a completely different game plan, must work with a local agency or consultant, and have to spend to get in the game to any reasonable or worthwhile degree.
Again, depends some on your luck and product. But the standard rules of the game just don't apply here.
Again, do some search here (WebmasterWorld) about that to see what I mean.
lots to think about and research.
Vimes.
in playing around with this...I kind of came across something:
you CAN just use KOR language encoding with ISO-8859-1 character set for your site and Koreans who are viewing it will be able to view Korean properly (it won't be broken).
that character set (standard) seems to handle Korean fine, but problem comes with the browswer, which needs to set to set to Korean encoding in that case (usually manually).
if your site has lots of interactive like posting in korean and/or english then might want to do some testing.
somethings post fine while other will have problems. (it will come out as ascii(?) code (eg look like this: #903823d or something).
again, depends on what your site setup is.
if you have a combination of english and korean elements and you want view english elements without broken korean...then you will probably want to go KOR language encoding with ISO-8859-1.
if its all Korean than KOR / EUC-KR is safest. (english doesn't "break"--if that is ever even an issue).
did that make sense? :p
