Developing Non-English Web Sites

This section contains tips and tutorials on reading and developing non-English Web sites.

Special Characters Entity Codes for Accents and Currency Unicode Numeric Codes General Concepts Encoding Tutorial Unicode Setup Declare Encoding Meta Tag Declare the Lang Tag XML Files (includes RSS) Browser Setup Under the System Setup Tab Mozilla Internet Explorer - Windows Internet Explorer - Macintosh Opera 7 Safari - OS X Netscape 4.7 Other Browsers (Alan Wood)

Web Editors Switch Keyboards System Setup Tab Typing in ANGEL Dreamweaver Export Text from International Word-Processors Suggested CSS Font Styles Mozilla Composer Frontpage (Windows Only) Special Layout Superscript and Subscript Right to Left Languages Vertical Text Some Workarounds PDF (Best for Rarer Scripts) Images (Best for Decorative Text) ASCII Substitution (Best for E-mail) Avoid FONT FACE Web Development Links See the Links page for links to different encoding and language specifications.

 

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