[thelist] Multiple languages on the same page

Travis tbrunn at pgmusic.com
Fri Mar 4 20:57:41 CST 2005


Thanks for the reply, I did bit of experimenting and that works great.  One
additional question - can anyone recommend a good utf-8 text editor for
doing your html in?  Thanks!  -travis



----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Clover" <and-evolt at doxdesk.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Multiple languages on the same page


> Travis <tbrunn at pgmusic.com> wrote:
>
> > I know about setting the charset to display a particular
> > language, but what if I want to display a whole bunch of languages, some
of
> > which include multibyte characters?
>
> Use a character encoding based on the Unicode character set, which
> includes (for the most part) all characters available in older encodings.
>
> It's a reasonable idea to use the Unicode encoding UTF-8 for *all* pages
> these days, rather than legacy encodings. (It's especially gratifying to
> be able to say goodbye to the horrors lurking in DBCS...)
>
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