#22644 [Opn->Csd]: language specific content-encoding

ID: 22644 Updated by: goba@php.net Reported By: ulysses at mail dot fitan dot com dot tw -Status: Open +Status: Closed Bug Type: Website problem Operating System: MacOS PHP Version: 4.3.1 New Comment: We let users to define their preferred language now, and have content-encoding headers, and always had relative font sizes, measured to your browser defaults. Every browser supports zooming to some respect... So there is no problem left here... Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-12 05:37:27] ulysses at mail dot fitan dot com dot tw Well, my browser now have no trouble rendering www.php.net/ zh/ echo . But it's still hard to read. Chinese font must be larger so that user will not complain. I know this cause I'm dealing with critical users just like me everyday. And that's why you can hardly find any elegent Chinese website. I've build several multi-language website too. And I found that the only way to make both English and Chinese language version look good, is to build two website with different layout template. It's almost impossible to use one style for two different language. Now when I'm designing pages with CSS, I would avoid set specified font name as font-family. I will use "serif", "sans-serif", "monospace" and "cursive" instead; so that it can be modified for other language easily. Sometimes I will use PHP to generate CSS files ( href= 'stylesheet.php' ) and Javascript files to deal with these browser trouble. Another greate solution to this problem is to set cookie and let user choose their preferred language. Like Google. BTW, I've tried 'jp' in accept-language sets; most content are translated into Japanese. But there are only a few keywords (like 'example', 'warning' and some subtitle) are translated into Chinese... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-12 02:24:41] goba@php.net The CSS file and the accept language setting is not connected. You said it's a nice feature to have the accept language honored, so you don't have a problem with it. So I renamed the bug :) We do print out language specific Content-Type headers. See http://www.php.net/source.php?url=/include/shared-manual.inc for yourself (look for the sendManualHeaders function). I can check this by visiting http://php.net/zh/echo (which is the Chinese echo page), and I got a notice that I don't have that charset installed. We do have a problem with the CSS files, which does seem to be overriden by browsers, as different charsets require different fonts... You asked us to specify the charset *or* langauge dependent CSS files. We do the first. Then what is the problem? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-11 20:17:17] ulysses at mail dot fitan dot com dot tw php.net now recept ACCEPT_LANG parameter and display specified language keywords. That's a nice feature. But you also specified all font-family in style.css as Verdana. That's not good. Verdana is a font with Western language character set. If you do not specify content-type=text/html with charset setting to correct character set (big5, gb2312, shift-jis...), users who use Chinese (zh, zh-TW) or Japaness (ja) as the top of accept-languages will not be able to view the contents with some browsers. Please add charset, or please use language-specified CSS file. BTW, I'm reporting PHP.net website problem, this bug reporting should not ask me for PHP version. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=22644&edit=1