Re: a bit off the list but should be easy

Thanks :-) that is really helpful. Jack jacky@activelifestyle.com "Love your enemies, it will drive them nuts" ----- Original Message ----- From: <Lawrence.Sheed@dfait-maeci.gc.ca> To: <jacky@activelifestyle.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 3:33 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] a bit off the list but should be easy > Most people do it like this > > > Specify the charset in the document. > > e.g. > > Simplified Chinese > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312"> > > Traditional Chinese > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=big5"> > > You can also specify the language type in the web server - have a look at > your apache settings. > Doing it via the charset= method is better though imho. > > > Note that the download font thing is Internet Exploder Specific. Internet > Exploder also has a few issues with different charsets. > Also note that *all* html documents should have a specified charset - even > the plain english ones. Most of the html on the internet is coded wrongly, > this does not make it correct. > > I do a lot of simplified chinese development, being located in Shanghai, > China. > > Cheers, > > Lawrence. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jack [mailto:jacky@activelifestyle.com] > Sent: August 16, 2001 4:21 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] a bit off the list but should be easy > > > Hi people > It is about html, that when I go to some sites that ask me to download their > font like Japanese or chinese font, in order to read their language, what do > they put in the page for that kind of detection? > Jack > jacky@activelifestyle.com > "Love your enemies, it will drive them nuts" > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >