Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:40:17 -0500 From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> To: faja606@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Complex text layout Message-ID: <4CEC06F3-4700-4774-B56E-F8104AA1442C@goldmark.org> In-Reply-To: <8CAD8977E70BB7D-1770-2988@webmail-me08.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CAD8977E70BB7D-1770-2988@webmail-me08.sysops.aol.com>
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On Aug 30, 2008, at 4:11 AM, faja606@aol.com wrote: > I am trying to get my website to support multilanguage fonts, > complex text layouts. An example of what I am trying is to have the > fonts of other languages appear rather than boxes or question marks. This is purely an HTML/web-design question, and has nothing really to do with FreeBSD even if your webserver is a FreeBSD system. You should look at the LANG and DIR attributes. Also, you should set up your pages do use UTF-8 as a character set. To instruct your server to declare that documents are UTF-8 by default, you can set AddDefaultCharset utf-8 in your Apache configuration. AddDefaultCharset is document at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#adddefaultcharset If you don't have access to the Apache configuration, you can declare the charset to use within each document in the HTML, with something like <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> within the HEAD portion of the document. The LANG and DIR attributes are documented at http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/attrs.html#lang though that is more of a reference document than a "how to". Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
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