Displaying HTML in Foreign Languages like Arabic/Farsi

[regan]

Hello,

I'm trying to find out the best way to display a foreign language like Arabic/Farsi in HTML.

From my research of other sites I'm guessing that it involves an understanding of Unicode.

I'm also assuming you don't want to ask your users to download certain foreign language fonts to view the page.

If anyone has tackled this problem before can you please point me in the rigtht direction.

Thanks
Regan

[MstrBob]

Perhaps this FAQ from the W3C will be of some use:

http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-international-multilingual

Hope it helps...

[regan]

Thanks MstrBob

Your link led me to this link

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/htmlunicode.html

which is proving to be helpful.

[sharkey]

Please remember not to cross post this thread is already in the html forum mate.

[DaveSW]

closed for the above reason. Please pursue this topic in the HTML forum, it being more appropriate there.