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Tips for Developing Non-English Web Sites

HTML Meta Tags

  1. Declare The Encoding.
  2. Declare the Language
  3. Script Codes for Language Tags

Enter Special Characters

  1. HTML Special Entity Codes Up One Level
  2. Inputting Single Unicode Characters

Using Web Editors

  1. Export text from International Word-Processors
  2. Dreamweaver Tips
  3. FrontPage (Windows) Tips
  4. Mozilla Composer (Unicode only)

Layout and Fonts

  1. Right-to-Left Text
  2. Vertical Text (Experimental)
  3. Superscript and Subscript
  4. Specifying Safe Fonts with CSS
  5. Avoid Using the FONT FACE tag

Other Workarounds

  1. P.D.F. Files
  2. Using GIF and SVG Image Files
  3. ASCII Substitution

Beyond HTML

  1. XML Files (includes RSS)

 

 

 

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