Hello people I am working on a web site that requires [COLOR=”Red”]non-english font such as ARABIC, PERSIAN, etc.[/COLOR]I can’t find any guideline or instruction as how to go about it. Any ideas? Thanks in advance PS. If you can recommend a book on the topic I also apreciate.
@kfranzdevJul 08.2007 — #what do you need to know about it? i haven't yet created a website with arabic yet, but i have worked with russian and eastern european languages. it may just have to do with the character encoding set for the site...like UTF-8 or UTF-16?
1. My own computer and keyboard does not give me Persian or Arabic charaters. So first problem is [B]generating those characters on my machine [/B]so I can paste them into the HTML pages.
2. These pages would have [B]part english and part Persian [/B]content (characters) if I specify UTF-8 wouldn;t that lead to problems?
3. Forms in the pages should send the filled data (in persian) to [B]mysql [/B]database. (I checked the MySQL site and can;t find any reference to foreign characters. WOuld it accept foreign characters?)
1. My own computer and keyboard does not give me Persian or Arabic charaters. So first problem is generating those characters on my machine so I can paste them into the HTML pages.
2. These pages would have part english and part Persian content (characters) if I specify UTF-8 wouldn;t that lead to problems?
3. Forms in the pages should send the filled data (in persian) to mysql database. (I checked the MySQL site and can;t find any reference to foreign characters. WOuld it accept foreign characters?)[/QUOTE]
Thanks a million for your information
1.Well, install the characters and get a new keyboard with the required layout.
2. Nope, I don't think that would be a problem.
3. I don't know really, but you could use English characters that show the pronunciation for these words.
Just a second ago I was opening the [URL=http://www.w3c.org/]W3C[/URL] and I found them having more than one language written in under the "World Offices" heading.
So, I checked out the source code, and thats' how they did it :
[code=html] <p class="navPara">The <a href="/Consortium/Offices/" class="navlink">W3C Offices</a>, part of the <a href="/2007/IntlRel.html">W3C International Relations team</a> translate many W3C home page news items. W3C Offices are located in these parts of the world:</p>
<li><a href="http://www.w3c.de/" class="navlink" title="German and Austria" hreflang="de"><span xml:lang="de" lang="de">Deutschland und Österreich</span> (Germany and Austria)</a></li>