[thelist] Building a site in Japanese

[Thomas Klepl]

Hi Adam,

I recently built a Japanese website and I just copy and pasted the Japanese
text from the supplied Word docs into Dreamweaver, no issues or gotchas. As
long as the html document has the character set specified as "shift_jis",
and your computer has japanese fonts installed, you shouldn't have any
problems. I believe you can also use the unicode character set. If you're on
Windows then you want to make sure you have support for East Asian
languages, which includes Asian fonts like MS Gothic and MS Mincho. This is
under "Regional and Language Options" in the control panel, Languages tab.

Tom


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Subject: [thelist] Building a site in Japanese

Hi folks,

I've built a lot of websites, but this will be my first in another language.
I've looked at other websites in Japanese and figure that everything is
pretty much the same except for the character set.  The copy is in encoded
somehow and when the page is rendered, the japanese letters and words
appear.   Forgive me if this sounds really stupid, but what will I need to
get the encoded copy into my pages?  I haven't received the content from the
client yet, so I'm honestly not sure what I will have to work with.  Any
gotchas or tips would be appreciated.

Thanks a ton!
adam aka bread_man
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