RE: Mixing languages on a Web site

2000-07-03 Thread Chris Pratley
Microsoft Word Sent with office10ship build 1829 wordmail on -Original Message- From: Michael (michka) Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: July 1, 2000 7:00 AM To: Unicode List Subject: Re: Mixing languages on a Web site If you mean the Active IMM, you can install the Japanese lang

Re: Mixing languages on a Web site

2000-07-01 Thread Andrew Cunningham
2000 3:49 Subject: RE: Mixing languages on a Web site From: Michael (michka) Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 4:28 AM To prove #4 will work, see http://www.trigeminal.com/samples/provincial.html Along with 102 other languages, this page includes both

Re: Mixing languages on a Web site

2000-07-01 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
attractive than the LangPack font (MS Mincho). michka - Original Message - From: "Andrew Cunningham" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Unicode List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Unicode List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 6:51 AM Subject: Re: Mixing lang

Re: Mixing languages on a Web site

2000-06-30 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 10:19 PM Subject: Mixing languages on a Web site I am mixing Japanese and Turkish letters on my site. 1) How do I convert Latin-* text to UTF-8 text? 2) How do I convert Shift-JIS text to UTF-8 text? 3) How do I mark text as UTF-8? 4) Will people actual

Re: Mixing languages on a Web site

2000-06-30 Thread Antoine Leca
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) How do I mark text as UTF-8? In your head section: meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" Theoretically, you don't need this: Unicode (UTF-16 or UTF-8) are the default for the web. In

Re: Mixing languages on a Web site

2000-06-30 Thread Mark Davis
This is very much like how we did the multlingual content in http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html, which currently has English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Arabic; with more to follow. Mark Herman Ranes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skreiv: I am mixing

RE: Mixing languages on a Web site

2000-06-30 Thread Ayers, Mike
From: Michael (michka) Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 4:28 AM To prove #4 will work, see http://www.trigeminal.com/samples/provincial.html Along with 102 other languages, this page includes both Japanese and Turkish. UTF-8 is what makes that

RE: Mixing languages on a Web site

2000-06-30 Thread Marco . Cimarosti
Antoine Leca wrote: Hmmm. Writing from top of my head (which is *not* the good way to go in such a list), I understood that Unicode was the default character set, [...] You are right (see http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTML-charset.html). OTOH, I believe that for upward compatibility,

Re: Mixing languages on a Web site

2000-06-30 Thread Peter_Constable
On 06/30/2000 08:25:47 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... a few are missing (Ethiopic, for example). But its got most of them (and I would love to fill in the blanks if there is anyone who has sources for the missing languages!). Just a few? Most of them? Not by a long shot! (Cf.

Re: Mixing languages on a Web site

2000-06-30 Thread Peter_Constable
On 06/30/2000 12:09:53 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Languages and scripts are often very "politically" involved. I simply chose not to judge people for their contribution, thats all. And given those considerations, I don't blame you in the least. - Peter

Re: Mixing languages on a Web site

2000-06-30 Thread Peter_Constable
On 06/30/2000 01:27:18 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, Just read your post to the Unicode list. I'm wondering if your site has any Unicode sample texts available (I'm looking for just about every major script/language). The texts don't have to be long... but I'd like stuff longer than one

Re: Mixing languages on a Web site

2000-06-30 Thread Christopher John Fynn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably the Unicode FAQ should be updated periodically with questions asked on *this*list, such as problems authoring web pages, selecting fonts, etc. I second that. As Unicode is increasingly available to users in operating systems, applications, and on the

Mixing languages on a Web site

2000-06-29 Thread rampshot
I am mixing Japanese and Turkish letters on my site. 1) How do I convert Latin-* text to UTF-8 text? 2) How do I convert Shift-JIS text to UTF-8 text? 3) How do I mark text as UTF-8? 4) Will people actually be able to SEE BOTH the Japanese AND the Turkish? 5) Is there a little "formatted in