> > My concern (and that of my client) is for those people who do not have > Chinese (of either variety) installed on their machine and don't want > to. If an typical user comes upon a section of the page that doesn't > display in readable fashion, their assumption is likely to be that the > site does not work. It is always my fault, not theirs. I'm attempting to > find a way around that I wouldn't worry at all. If people who don't know Chinese and don't have Chinese font installed on their system, and if they accidentally or out of curiousity click on a Chinese page link, they can click back button back to the English page. To be honest, I would be astonished if they are people be so ignorant that when they click a link that clearly indicate a Chinese/Japanese/ page and see funny characters and blame the web designer or the company. One way to ease your client' unnecessary anxiety is to have both Chinese/English displayed in the link menu, so that the user know which button to choose to click back to English site. I know many international corporate website do this, and actually quite a fashion for Korean websites. If this method still can't please your client, perhaps he/she should have a big headline in Every Chinese page announce in English that "this page you are seeing is a Chinese page". But this will looks very silly. There are so many thing we can't control even we try our very best.
By the way, Mac IE 5.2 does not have good support for Unicode Chinese, and this browser still have significant users who use OS 9. If you client cares the Chinese audiences, it's better to have Chinese page coded in GB and Big5. tee ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
