Re: FN-FORUM: Displaying part of a site in Mandarin

date posted 7th March 2008 11:22

I can confirm this. We did a MMS (massively multi-lingual site) a few years
ago which included Arabic, Russian and some other non-western fonts.

It all works fine even the right-to-left reading Arabic site was fine.

Just make sure all your pages are encoded using UTF-8 and you might need to
make a seeting on the server to set the mime setting for the page to UTF-8.
I know we had to add a little page processing directive to each page to make
it work in ColdFusion as well as the encoding tag.

Also, if using a DB driven scenario, ensure your DB is using UTF-8 as well
as your ODBC driver.


On 7/3/08 11:57, "Anthony Cartmell" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

>
>> I have had an enquiry about producing a website for an independent
>> school where the text on several of the pages need to be shown in
>> Mandarin for Parents in China. Anyone have any ideas how best to
>> achieve this?
>
> Use UTF-8 for your editor and web server, then Mandarin will display fine
> for anyone who has a suitable font installed that contains those
> characters (wich presumably the Chinese readers will have). If on Windows
> you'll need to install a language pack to view the characters yourself, I
> think.
>
> Anthony