[thelist] Providing Multi-Language Options in a CMS

David Dorward david at dorward.me.uk
Wed Jan 30 15:04:57 CST 2008


On 30 Jan 2008, at 20:34, Randal Rust wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 3:28 PM, David Dorward  
> <david at dorward.me.uk> wrote:
>
>>  Unicode - handles just about anything.
>
> So they would enter every character with the Unicode version?

Yes, although that should be transparent to them. The CMS should be  
set up to store data in some form of Unicode (UTF-8 is most common)  
and serve it up with the character character encoding information in  
the HTTP headers.

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David Dorward
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