On Dec 31, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Jim Sims wrote:
Thanks for the reply Devin.
Yup, I've stumbled upon the adding font tags workaround/hack. That
brings up a question
of what tags to add if the user is not speaking english. The tag
"lang=en-UC"
implies to me that the "en" is for english. Perhaps that does not make
any difference
and I can use that tag even if the user is Dutch? The display of the
text should
be the same no matter the language of the viewer I suppose.
I think the "en-UC" stands for "english-Unicode", but that's just an
educated guess. The second part of the code seems to be optional,
because it will also work if you just use "el", which is the language
name code for modern Greek. There's some good information here:
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/web/tips/langtag.html
http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/related/iso639.txt
http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/doc/ISO_3166.html
I find that getting the right combination is a matter of trial and
error.
As an alternative, would it be possible to encode the unicode text
from the form as UTF-8 before saving it to the text file? At least
it would be a bit cleaner that way.
Thanks for providing this direction to my research on the issue. Might
be a winner ;-)
It's cleaner to transport electronically, but I still use unicode html
entities often because it's a little easier to control formatting
elements like font and style that way.
Regards,
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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