Being sent foreign character Word documents

[esllou]

I have asked for a small section of my site to be translated into 10-15 major world languages including Chinese, Japanese, Malay, Hindi and so on.

I got together a good group of translators but they are all sending me the work in Word. What is the easiest way to get these characters to display on my computer? I am probably going to then make an image for my website as this seems to be the least problematic way to go.

[encyclo]

Firstly you need to install all the appropriate language packs (and fonts) for Windows: go to

Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages

and install everything you need, usually all the East Asian files.

To display the text, are you looking to add the text onto the same page or have a page for each language? Usually with multiple languages, the best way is to encode everything as UTF-8 which covers all languages and alphabets. Bear in mind that your visitors will need the appropriate fonts as well to view the text. You can use images, but the text will be inaccessible, non-resiaeable and totally non-indexable by search engines.

A thread that might interest you:

Creating HTML mark-up for languages you don't know [webmasterworld.com]