On 8/10/06, Christian Heilmann <codepo8 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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) > > > > 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. > > Here are a few more resources http://www.i18nguy.com/markup/right-to-left.html http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/index.htm http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/index.html ben -- Ben Morrison