encoding for other languages

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encoding for other languages

pcguru333

5:18 pm on Apr 4, 2002 (gmt 0)

I am currently working on a website for a client that targets Japanese clients as well as American clients. I have about half of the pages done in English and now he wants to duplicate all the pages using Japanese characters.

My question is this: How do I encode the page for Japanese and what do end users need to have installed to view the Japanese characters?

PsychoTekk

5:50 pm on Apr 4, 2002 (gmt 0)

the user has to have installed a characterpacket that will show the specific
characters for the given codes... if needed ie for example downloads it.

here are some charsets:
[psychotekk.de...]

you have to put it into the header of the webpage like this
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

bill

8:34 am on Apr 8, 2002 (gmt 0)

pcguru333 peruse our Asia and Pacific Region [webmasterworld.com] forum...there are quite a few threads that mention Japanese encoding...here's one [webmasterworld.com]...

Something like this may be overkill, but it works:


<html lang="jp">
<head>
<title>blah</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=x-sjis">
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="jp">
</head>

Basically you just need to set the encoding and character set, and then anyone with a Japanese OS or Asian fonts installed can see your pages correctly.