On 7 Feb 2006, at 7:02 am, Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote:
I am new to multiple language sites. However, I have a client who
has a
small amount of text on one page of his site referring Japanese
speaking
users to a different (Japanese) site.
Firefox and Safari on the Mac seem to have a default which allows the
Japanese to be read. However, I noticed that good ol' Windows IE6
doesn't automatically render other languages and that its preferences
needed to be changed etc.
Japanese (and other East-Asian) language support is installed by
default on OS X.
Not so on Windows side of things (it comes with the install discs as
an extra package).
I've been told that Firefox/Win tries to display the text nevertheless.
Lachlan wrote
It's probably a font related issue. IIRC, if none of the fonts
specified in the font-family property contain the glyphs for those
characters, IE won't find and display them. You may be able to
improve the situation by including the following:
font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif;
Hmm, not sure (but I can't test those things, I don't have access to
a PC without East-Asian language support...:-)).
A little test file
<http://dev.l-c-n.com/_temp/j-test.php>
Includes a screenshot. I've used a whole collection for the font-
family (first some Japanese font-families, then some fall back stuff
as mentioned).
Let me know how it looks like (for the curious, it is my name).
Sarah again
My question is this:
Since most web users are using IE, and I imagine most IE browsers
do not
have multilingual capabilities enabled, then they would see
gobbledegook. So...
How do we overcome this in terms of usability? Is there a standard?
Should I include (in English) a title and/or link above the Japanese
text explaining how to render the text below, or explain, at the very
least, that the strange characters below are in fact in another
language?
What about including the text both in Japanese and English ?
Philippe
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Philippe Wittenbergh
<http://emps.l-c-n.com/>
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