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has anyone here ever made a site in Chinese ?

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Jul 12.2008

Hi

I’m making a site that has to be in English, French and Chinese and I was wondering if there are any potential problems arising from this.

For example, bearing in mind that you can’t use chinese characters in urls how do you name your files and directories ? Is there a standard procedure ?

If I use the English filenames would that be a problem for chinese browsers ?

Are there any tips for search engine optimization in chinese ?

Thanks for any help you can give me on this ?

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@toicontienJul 15.2008 — English file names would not be a problem. You could spell Chinese words out in English for file names if you wanted. The character set used for the pages is important. If you want to display Chinese characters, you probably need to serve the HTML files with UTF-16 for a character encoding. Usually Western languages need only UTF-8 encoding.
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@steamPunkauthorJul 15.2008 — thanks for your reply

do you think i'd need to create database tables in UTF-16 ? I'm not too sure if MySQL has UTF-16, but i'll check
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@toicontienJul 15.2008 — If you want to store chinese characters, then you probably will need to use UTF-16 for the charset in your database. I don't see why MySQL wouldn't support UTF-16.
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@steamPunkauthorJul 16.2008 — aha - ucs2, eh ? I didn't even know that existed

that's a very useful page

thanks
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@steamPunkauthorJul 16.2008 — so would i need to set the MySQL table encoding to ucs2_unicode_ci ?

is that better suited to my needs than UTF8_unicode_ci ?

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@toicontienJul 16.2008 — I'm not sure. I haven't dabbled in data base work much. I mostly just google for info. I imagine you would need to set the encoding to ucs2_unicode_ci if you wanted to encode UCS2 characters properly.
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