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HTML - Unicode Or Specific Language Charset?
I am the owner of http://www.translationhelp.com and I am debating whether to use Unicode on the pages or not. There are over 500 translators in the database (but not yet fully registered as the site is still in development). Each of these translators needs to create at least two "profile" web pages (one in their source language and one in their target language). This means I need to have the ability to allow the translators to enter their profile information in two separate forms when they register in their respective languages so that the form contents once submitted will display properly in the user's browser ("user" here means potential clients looking for a translator).
I have heard of some problems with Unicode and browser/computer configuration so I am not sure if that is the best solution. It also seems more complex and therefore more expensive and perhaps more prone to bugs. I am also not sure how to implement Unicode so that the translators can read/type their info into the form in their languages and the pages resulting from the form submission are displayed in Unicode. The other solution is to set the form pages to be displayed automatically using the specific language charset for that page and to display the web pages using the charset of that page's language. The problem is that I have not had the actual site pages translated yet (that is coming soon) and the common elements (menus etc.) are all in English. This will mean a translator's profile page with a language charset of Japanese (for example) will also have menu items in English. The combination of the two languages is troublesome and the only solution I can come up with is to use Unicode OR display these pages without menus using a target "_blank" to open a new browser window and a couple of images (in English) to close the window or whatever. I have been thinking and wondering about this for some time and I could use any help or opinions to get me over the hump of indecision I am stuck at. Similar TutorialsI've got some unicode in my coding which I have to save my work in notepad under Unicode for both txt and html. Now when I upload my html file onto my website the page doesn't show like this, http://wantedfraternity.webs.com/test.html How do I fix this problem? :\ Hi, Can I display unicode character(i.e down arrow) BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE ▼ 9660 using javascript on my page. Can you plz guide me. Thanks With Regards Hi, buddies My website has a URL with unicode characters to get a page, but this URL cannot be decoded correctly by IIS7.0. 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Does anyone have any pointers as to how to properly implement content in different languages. What encoding should be used? Portuguese content is full of non-standard characters and I'm not sure that if I simply copy & paste the content that every browser will render all characters correctly. ANY help would be greatly appreciated. |
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