Web with France language

[yllai]

If I want to design a website with france language, how do I insert all the france language with my normal keyboard. As English, we can just type the content of our website, but in France language, some word have a bit symbols like /, \, ^, so how can I do it? Any ideas?

[bill]

You can use Alt codes to enter characters that aren't on your keyboard. We've had a few discussions about this here. This one might help: French/ English Bilingual Site [webmasterworld.com]

[samuil]

If you are using windows probably installing new keyboard profile will do the trick. Or just check out unicode numbers for your characters, use some trick in editor (for example 'o for ó), and then use "search and replace" in your editor.

[tomda]

Most of French characters are found in the UNICODE Special Characters.

Type your text in French (you can switch language in Windows using Alt+Shift). You will struggle at the beginning since you keyboard is not a French keyboard. If you do not want to purchase a French keyboard then do some seach on Internet for a large picture, this can help.

Then do a search and replace in Notepad.
Example:
é - é
è - è
ê - ê

[yllai]

Thanks a lot, I get it now. Read [cs.tut.fi...]

[samuil]

For quotes and guillemets you should not use those characters explicitly but surround quoted text with <q> tags. Then add followind rule to stylesheet:

Q:lang(fr) { quotes: "«" "»" "<" ">" }

Too bad IE does not support this... (I think so - it's generated content).

[tomda]

Good trick Samuil.

Sincerely, the guillemet is not a must. You can use the traditional quotes sign. Vowells are the most important.