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XTI

07-07-2007, 10:42 PM

Hello people
I am working on a web site that requires non-english font such as ARABIC, PERSIAN, etc.I can't find any guideline or instruction as how to go about it. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
PS. If you can recommend a book on the topic I also apreciate.

kfranzdev

07-08-2007, 12:28 AM

what do you need to know about it? i haven't yet created a website with arabic yet, but i have worked with russian and eastern european languages. it may just have to do with the character encoding set for the site...like UTF-8 or UTF-16?

XTI

07-08-2007, 11:54 AM

1. My own computer and keyboard does not give me Persian or Arabic charaters. So first problem is generating those characters on my machine so I can paste them into the HTML pages.
2. These pages would have part english and part Persian content (characters) if I specify UTF-8 wouldn;t that lead to problems?
3. Forms in the pages should send the filled data (in persian) to mysql database. (I checked the MySQL site and can;t find any reference to foreign characters. WOuld it accept foreign characters?)

Thanks a million for your information

• MaNiC MoE •

07-08-2007, 03:59 PM

hmm.. dat seemz like a BIG story, loolz
Anyway,

1. My own computer and keyboard does not give me Persian or Arabic charaters. So first problem is generating those characters on my machine so I can paste them into the HTML pages.
2. These pages would have part english and part Persian content (characters) if I specify UTF-8 wouldn;t that lead to problems?
3. Forms in the pages should send the filled data (in persian) to mysql database. (I checked the MySQL site and can;t find any reference to foreign characters. WOuld it accept foreign characters?)

Thanks a million for your information

1.Well, install the characters and get a new keyboard with the required layout.

2. Nope, I don't think that would be a problem.

3. I don't know really, but you could use English characters that show the pronunciation for these words.

• MaNiC MoE •

07-09-2007, 08:17 PM

Hey, I found out a solution!!
Just a second ago I was opening the W3C (http://www.w3c.org/) and I found them having more than one language written in under the "World Offices" heading.

So, I checked out the source code, and thats' how they did it :

The <a href="/Consortium/Offices/" class="navlink">W3C Offices</a>, part of the <a href="/2007/IntlRel.html">W3C
International Relations team</a> translate many W3C home page news
items. W3C Offices are located in these parts of the world:

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.w3c.org.au/" class="navlink" title="Australia">Australia</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.w3c.nl/index.shtml.nl" class="navlink" hreflang="nl" title="Benelux">Benelux</a>/<a href="http://www.w3c.nl/index.shtml.fr" class="navlink" title="Benelux" hreflang="fr">Bénélux</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.chinaw3c.org/" class="navlink" title="China" hreflang="zh-hans">中国
(China)</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.w3c.tut.fi/" class="navlink" title="Finland" hreflang="fi">Suomi

(Finland)</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.w3c.de/" class="navlink" title="German and Austria" hreflang="de">Deutschland und Österreich (Germany and Austria)</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.w3c.gr/" class="navlink" title="Greece" hreflang="el">Ελλάδα
(Greece)</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.w3c.org.hk/Chinese_T/index.html" class="navlink" title="Hong Kong" hreflang="zh-hant">香港 (Hong Kong)</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.w3c.hu/" class="navlink" title="Hungary" hreflang="hu">Magyarország
(Hungary)</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.w3cindia.in/" class="navlink" title="India" hreflang="en">भारत
(India)</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.w3c.org.il/indexh.php" class="navlink" title="Israel" hreflang="he">ישראל
(Israel)</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.w3c.it/" class="navlink" title="Italy" hreflang="it">Italia

(Italy)</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.w3c.or.kr/" class="navlink" title="Korea" hreflang="ko">한국 (Korea)</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.w3c.org.ma/" class="navlink" title="Morocco" hreflang="ar">المغرب
(Morocco)</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.w3c.org.za/" class="navlink" title="Southern Africa" hreflang="en">Southern Africa</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.w3c.es/" class="navlink" title="Spain" hreflang="es">España

(Spain)</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.w3c.se" class="navlink" title="Sweden" hreflang="sv">Sverige
(Sweden)</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/" class="navlink" title="UK and Ireland" hreflang="en-uk">United Kingdom and Ireland</a></li>
</ul>

I think this would help!!