Re: Complex text layout

2008-08-31 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg

On Aug 30, 2008, at 4:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I am trying to get my website to support multilanguage fonts,  
complex text layouts. An example of what I am trying is to have the  
fonts of other languages appear rather than boxes or question marks.


This is purely an HTML/web-design question, and has nothing really to  
do with FreeBSD even if your webserver is a FreeBSD system.  You  
should look at the LANG and DIR attributes.  Also, you should set up  
your pages do use UTF-8 as a character set.  To instruct your server  
to declare that documents are UTF-8 by default, you can set


  AddDefaultCharset utf-8

in your Apache configuration.

AddDefaultCharset is document at

  http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#adddefaultcharset

If you don't have access to the Apache configuration, you can declare  
the charset to use within each document in the HTML, with something like


 

within the HEAD portion of the document.

The LANG and DIR attributes are documented at

  http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/attrs.html#lang

though that is more of a reference document than a "how to".


Cheers,

-j


--
Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/

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Complex text layout

2008-08-31 Thread faja606
I am trying to get my website to support multilanguage fonts, complex text 
layouts. An example of what I am trying is to have the fonts of other languages 
appear rather than boxes or question marks. In other words like Wikipedia.org 
which clearly shows the multilingual fonts on its front page. My server is 
running FreeBSD.
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