Vaska > - will utf-8 suffice?
Yes - however as Peter has pointed out you may need to consider server side aspects. > - do I need to specify <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; > xml:lang='en' lang='en'> as ZN? is it necessary? Isn't utf-8 good > enough? You should specify the lang in the html element/s containing the text. For example this page is in English but contains divs with other languages (FF will get XHTML 1.1 and MSIE XHTML 1.0): http://www.orbital.co.nz/anx/index.cfm/1,10,96,html Johan > ------------Original Message------------ > From: Vaska.WSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Date: Fri, Jun-3-2005 2:05 AM > Subject: [WSG] Regarding foreign languages > > Am I allowed to ask about non-CSS things here? > > In particular, I'm trying to deal with how to handle inputs of Chinese > characters via some forms. What I'm wondering is... > > - will utf-8 suffice? > - do I need to specify <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; > xml:lang='en' lang='en'> as ZN? is it necessary? Isn't utf-8 good > enough? > > And further, I'm not sure how to handle Chinese text on the validation > end of things, but this might be a subject for a different list > altogether. > > I'll eventually have to deal with some other languages but Chinese will > > likely be one of the more difficult ones. > > ??? > > I'll see what happens when I send this...v > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
