Re: how to create web page using different foriegn fonts?

Kyo,

Please do not cross-post in non-related groups. Your sample clearly shows
this is in a web page, so you can cut out the comp.lang.java hierchy.

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:15:24 +0100, Kyo wrote:

Hi,
I would like to make some web pages using foreign fonts. Now the problem
is- if I write something in Chinese language using this coding.

font="Chinese"
whatever
/font

only those people will see this text who has Chinese fonts installed in
his computer. But someone who don't have this font installed in his
computer can't read it.But I want this text to make readable to every body
even if someone doesn't has Chinese font installed. Is there any way to
solve this problem?


thanks

How many languages will be displayed on the page?

If _everything_ is in the same language, simply declare the language in
your DOCTYPE tag (as well as the Content-language meta tag), use proper
unicode values for the characters, and let the browser do the rest.

If your page is all in Chinese, only those with fonts that support Chinese
will frequent it.

If your page has mixed languages, mark your document as UTF-8. Use <div>
and <span> to indicate what is in which language. You may wish to use CSS
to specify a list of possible fonts for each language. Finally, embedded
fonts are a possibility. I've never created one and users can disable
them, so your mileage may vary.

As a last resort, you can create images of the Chinese characters. The
downside is that spiders (such as google) will not understand the meaning
(unless you include the alt attribute). Also, text generally loads faster
than graphics.

HTH,
La'ie Techie

Lāʻie Techie:

If your page has mixed languages, mark your document as UTF-8.

It's not enough to just mark the document as UTF-8. You also have to
actually use UTF-8 in the document. That could of course mean
restricting the code to ASCII (a subset of UTF-8), using character
references (or entities) for everything else. (And remember ASCII is not
the same as Latin 1.)

--
Bertilo Wennergren <bertilow (AT) gmx (DOT) net> <http://www.bertilow.com>

Bertilo Wennergren wrote:

L??ie Techie:

If your page has mixed languages, mark your document as UTF-8.

It's not enough to just mark the document as UTF-8. You also have to
actually use UTF-8 in the document. That could of course mean
restricting the code to ASCII (a subset of UTF-8), using character
references (or entities) for everything else. (And remember ASCII is not
the same as Latin 1.)

There are multi-bit editors that will support utf-8. Even Mozilla will let you

export utf-8 without using entities.