> > Usually, I put this at the top of my websites: > > > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> > > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> > > > > > > I have never built a site in a non-English character set. > > What do I need to know/do differently? > > (knowledge or linkage appreciated) > > I built this part of this site in Hebrew: Splendid, so the options are English or Hebrew? :-) Let's now get an email for every language and encoding out there. There are some good Internationalization (i18n) resources out there: http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/QH/WP5/WD-int-primer-20020901.html http://www.w3.org/International/Activity.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/ Bear in mind though that going UTF-8 and the right HTML is only one small part of i18n, there are also a lot of cultural differences likes and usage patterns to think about. -- Chris Heilmann Book: http://www.beginningjavascript.com Blog: http://www.wait-till-i.com Writing: http://icant.co.uk/