How do you go about creating a website in another language such as Chinese?<!--content-->You can get the full list of character sets from <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets">http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets</a><!-- m --><br />
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For Chinese you'll want iso-ir-58<!--content-->So, basically it goes like this?<br />
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="Chinese"> <br />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset="iso-ir-58"><br />
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The link that jeffmott posted was confusing to me and it really didn't help me a whole lot. After using the code above, what else needs implementing or will that convert the webpage to Chinese?<br />
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Coding such as <html> and <body> tags and also using the <table> tags should be the same. Is that correct?<!--content-->Another, perhaps better, option is to start with an accessible page - one that follows the HTML 4.01 Strict Specification (not just the DTD) and that meets all of the Web Content Accesibility Guidelines 1.0 priority 1 and 2 guidelines. Then you will have a page that will work with the online, on the fly translators.<!--content-->Will that work with <body></body> tags ????<!--content-->So, basically it goes like this?<br />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="Chinese"> <br />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset="iso-ir-58">Almost...<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="zh">See <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1766.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1766.txt</a><!-- m --> if you want to learn more about the Content-Language header and language tags.<!--content-->Sorry i am still a newbie but will that change all the text to that langage ???<!--content-->Sorry i am still a newbie but will that change all the text to that langage ???No, it is not a translator. It simple tells the browser what characters to translate the series of octets (bytes) to. For instance, if Chinese characters were interpreted by the browser as English letters then you'd end up with gibberish that was unreadable to anyone speaking any language.<!--content-->If you go the multiple versions instead of one translatable version there's also Unicode and direction and such. And the whole thing is abbreviated as i18n for "internationalization". See <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/International/">http://www.w3.org/International/</a><!-- m -->. looked at both of the links but I don't see where the zh comes from in the code:<br />
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="zh"><br />
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The link doesn't list zh, or does it? I've looked at the links many of times or less you got it else where...
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For Chinese you'll want iso-ir-58<!--content-->So, basically it goes like this?<br />
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="Chinese"> <br />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset="iso-ir-58"><br />
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The link that jeffmott posted was confusing to me and it really didn't help me a whole lot. After using the code above, what else needs implementing or will that convert the webpage to Chinese?<br />
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Coding such as <html> and <body> tags and also using the <table> tags should be the same. Is that correct?<!--content-->Another, perhaps better, option is to start with an accessible page - one that follows the HTML 4.01 Strict Specification (not just the DTD) and that meets all of the Web Content Accesibility Guidelines 1.0 priority 1 and 2 guidelines. Then you will have a page that will work with the online, on the fly translators.<!--content-->Will that work with <body></body> tags ????<!--content-->So, basically it goes like this?<br />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="Chinese"> <br />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset="iso-ir-58">Almost...<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="zh">See <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1766.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1766.txt</a><!-- m --> if you want to learn more about the Content-Language header and language tags.<!--content-->Sorry i am still a newbie but will that change all the text to that langage ???<!--content-->Sorry i am still a newbie but will that change all the text to that langage ???No, it is not a translator. It simple tells the browser what characters to translate the series of octets (bytes) to. For instance, if Chinese characters were interpreted by the browser as English letters then you'd end up with gibberish that was unreadable to anyone speaking any language.<!--content-->If you go the multiple versions instead of one translatable version there's also Unicode and direction and such. And the whole thing is abbreviated as i18n for "internationalization". See <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/International/">http://www.w3.org/International/</a><!-- m -->. looked at both of the links but I don't see where the zh comes from in the code:<br />
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="zh"><br />
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The link doesn't list zh, or does it? I've looked at the links many of times or less you got it else where...
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