Need help in making the arabic/french version of my website

[dasun]

Hi,

I'm have a english language web site, and now i want to have the french and arabic versions of the website (content). Is there a way to do it without making visitors downloading french/arabic fonts? Can anyone please help me in this.

thankx

[preachers]

For the french, find a font for your web site that accept the accent like é è ê à etc...

[edited by: engine at 1:46 pm (utc) on Aug. 26, 2005]

[encyclo]

Welcome to the forums dasun!

For the French version, almost all standard fonts (Arial, Times, Verdana etc. etc.) include accented characters. For Arabic, you will need different fonts, but those who actually read Arabic will already have them. :)

You have two options for character encoding - either use the charset ISO-8859-1 (which you may well be using anyway) for your English and French pages and ISO-8859-6 for Arabic, or a better solution would be to use UTF-8 encoding for everything - this will allow you to use all the appropriate characters across your whole site without switching charsets.