Language Characters

How do I incorporate greek/Japanese/chinese characters?

[Gem_Jar]

I am developing a website which will have different pages for different countries. It will include pages for Greek visitors.

When I copy and paste greek into Dreamweaver, a series of question marks and other random punctuation appears rather than the Greek. Is this simply down to the fact that I don't have greek characters installed on my PC and my computer is unable to view them, or will the Greek be completely ilegible to anyone?

How can I incorporate Greek characters into the website?

Thanks

[vkaryl]

I THINK you'll need to use Unicode characters. I could quite likely be wrong about that - but seems to me I remember having to change some "perfectly normal" accented letter (French accent grave maybe?) to the corresponding Unicode character in order for it to validate to a Strict doctype. This was a couple of months back - I'll have to go check through my notes, see which site it was and what I actually had to do, and why....

I'll post back in a bit when I "recover" the real info....

[A bit later.... Sorry, I can't seem to find the example of which I posted. Seems odd, because there were about 20 instances of whatever it was on the page, and all had to be replaced to validate to 4.01 Strict. I'm sure I'll come up with it at 4 am tomorrow....]

[bill]

You'll need to have your system setup to be able to view the various languages or all you'll see is gibberish in most cases. Windows XP is quite a good OS for dealing with multiple language settings.

On the pages Unicode may be alright for Greek, but for Japanese and Chinese I'd suggest that you use a native encoding.

[Gem_Jar]

Thanks for your help - looks like this may be something to pass on to a specialist.