Website in multi-language.

Howto use UTF-8 and different characters.

[BlackDex]

Hello ppl,

I Have a question about multi-language website-content.

I Want to put the website as UTF-8, which i think is the best thing to do for multi-language websites.

I Would like to have some more information about this subject.

About charsets and post data, and howto use editors etc..

Thx in advanced.

[encyclo]

Which editor are you using BlackDex? Most modern text editors and several wysiwyg tools such as Dreamweaver can save as UTF-8, however you should avoid non-web specific tools such as Notepad which can cause problems with encoding. You can edit the contents in the normal way.

When you say multi-lingual, do you include mixing languages with different alphabets such as Japanese, Urdu? If you do not the characters available you will have to install the appropriate fonts on your system to be able to view the content. Usually you can copy/paste directly from other documents directly into your editor.

For form data, modern UTF-8-capable browsers submit the contents in the encoding specified on the page. It goes without saying that you must specify the UTF-8 encoding either as a HTTP header or in the page

head

via a charset meta tag.

I wrote a short introduction to the ideas behind UTF-8 a couple of months back that you might find useful:

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