John, You should indeed declare the page to be Vietnamese, and if there are English passages or phrases embedded in the file you should declare those to be English on the elements that surround them.
For an explanation of this, see our new techniques index at http://localhost/International/technique-index#language (note that this allows you to drill down to 2 further levels of detail). RI ============ Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Horner > Sent: 18 February 2005 03:48 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WSG] Other character sets/languages > > Thanks very much for that, Dejan. > > >Choose charset UTF-8 (not UTF-8 BOM) when saving. > > Can you explain the difference? > > >Don't forget to mark up properly the Vietnamese content with <div > >lang="vi"> or such... > > Now the one easy thing about this project is that Vietnamese > already contains all the unaccented roman letters. So I can > set the whole page to be vietnamese I guess and it won't stop > the English being English... Or would that cause a problem? > > Thanks again, > ------------------------------------------------------------ > "Have You Validated Your Code?" > John Horner (+612 / 02) 9333 3488 > Senior Developer, ABC Online http://www.abc.net.au/ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ****************************************************** > 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 ******************************************************
