Authoring in Japanese

[Kris]

In article <BVIZ7.4909$Gb1.9...@news2.calgary.shaw.ca>,
Rhett Nye <harveyNO...@hotmailremove.com> wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I'm in the process of building a japanese-language website, I know the META
> tags to use, but what about getting the characters into notepad? I need
> another editor to get the correct encoding (not ascii/ansi?), but which
> editor and which encoding?

Do you already have the content written down somewhere? What does it
look like? Gibberish?

try cpy/paste to get it into Notepad.

You would need a Japanese computing environment to view and edit the
content. May I assume you have that?
Yo view the content ina browser you will need to set the correct
character translation through a META tag (SHIFT-JIS, preferrably) and
have Japanese fonts installed (not those simple downloadable freeware
thingies though). If then everything looks alright in your browser, you
may conclude that it will also look alright with other visitors; but you
might want to have a second opinion on that.

If you only use a small amount of text, then perhaps it is better to
rely on character entities in Unicode (UTF-8). http://www.unicode.com
has a comprehensive table on Unicode characters and their codes.

>
> I'm using any M$ Windoze operating system (XP, 2000, Millenium, 98se) could
> someone point me to a tutorial/FAQ regarding Authoring HTML in Japanese?
>

The HTML stays the same, no matter for which language you write it.

--
watashi-ba?

[Rhett Nye]

Kris <ap...@chello.nl.removethis> wrote in
news:apple-36F09A....@news2.chello.nl:

Thanks for your comments, i decided to make the text into images.. i've got
testers working on it now.

Thanks again.

Rhett
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[Bertilo Wennergren]

Rhett Nye wrote:

>>>I'm in the process of building a japanese-language website, I know the
>>>META tags to use, but what about getting the characters into notepad?
>>>I need another editor to get the correct encoding (not ascii/ansi?),
>>>but which editor and which encoding?

>[...]

> Thanks for your comments, i decided to make the text into images.. i've got
> testers working on it now.

That's the worst "solution" of all. A whole website in Japanese using
images for all the text!!

Aside from the obvious problems with size, you should consider that
the "text" can't be search or indexed, and that blind users won't be
able to access the site.

--
Bertilo Wennergren <http://bertilow.com> <bert...@gmx.net>