Developing Non-English Web Sites

Special Characters

• Entity Codes for Accents and Currency
• Unicode Numeric Codes

General Concepts

• Encoding Tutorial
• Unicode Setup
  
• Declare Encoding Meta Tag
• Declare the Lang Tag
• XML Files (includes RSS)

Browser Setup

Under the Basics Tab

• Firefox
• Internet Explorer - Windows
• Safari
• Opera

Web Editors

• Switch Keyboards System Setup Tab
• Dreamweaver
• Expression Web
• ANGEL HTML Editor
• Export Text from International Word-Processors
• Suggested CSS Font Styles
• Mozilla Composer (Deprecated)
• Frontpage (Deprecated)
  

Special Layout

• Superscript and Subscript
• Right to Left Languages
• Vertical Text
  

Some Workarounds

• PDF (Best for Rarer Scripts)
• Images (Best for Decorative Text)
• ASCII Substitution (Best for E-mail)
• Avoid FONT FACE

Web Development Links

See the Links page for links to different encoding and language specifications.