Topic: I don't know Greek! (Page 1 of 1) |
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Bipolar (III) Inmate From: f(x) |
posted 12-20-2005 22:38 |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: 100101010011 <-- right about here |
posted 12-20-2005 22:44
Generally when running another language it will be up to the user to have the appropriate language pack installed to render the language correctly. If someone is looking to read the page in Greek they probably have the correct pack installed and you should be fine. |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: f(x) |
posted 12-20-2005 22:52 |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: there...no..there..... |
posted 12-21-2005 00:31
i guess it depends on where the greek words are going to be but it would probably be best to have them as images. |
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist with Finglongers From: Germany |
posted 12-21-2005 08:50
honestly, with the current state of the webbrowsers, and if you have specified the right encoding, a few green letter's shouldn't |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: London |
posted 12-21-2005 11:01
There's a right way and a wrong way, the W3C and WCAG has it's own advice on this, if the Greek is only used as quotes inside your English webpage then you should use spans with the lang attribute around your Greek text see teh WCAG Guideline on Language here. |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Florida |
posted 12-21-2005 13:38
UTF-8 should do you fine. |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: London |
posted 12-21-2005 15:21
Ah I found hits old article on Mezzoblue it's about using foreign languages. |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: f(x) |
posted 12-21-2005 19:24 |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: Umeå, Sweden |
posted 12-22-2005 01:31
HTML/XHTML entity references are only safe in text/html documents. For application/xml or applicaiton/xhtml+xml you can only rely on user agents supporting the XML subset of entity references (< > ' " &). Entering UTF-8 characters directly into the document is pretty safe as long as you both properly send the charset parameter of the Content-Type, and use it in meta tags (HTML) or the XML prolog (XHTML).The absolutely best support for non-latin characters you'll find in character references though. These use the decimal or hexadecimal code point values for the characters in the Unicode standard. |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: f(x) |
posted 12-22-2005 22:51 |