Hey thanks! I was just curious...the problem had come up on a portal forum...it was beyond me how to deal with RTL but sparked my curiousity. I'll check it out after I go buy a case of Fosters ;-)
| A combination of specifying the character set, language and the direction
| the text is written.
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http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#h-5.2 discusses character sets.
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| Language and direction is given by the lang and dir attributes
| respectively.
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http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.1
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| Ron Symonds (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
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| "Rob Giordano (aka: Crash Gordon®)" <
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| wrote in message | Only slightly OT.
| how are RTL languages handled anyway, is it part of a character set, or
| what?
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| curious
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| | | Try adding this meta tag:
| | <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="fa">
| | I do not know if it will make a difference.
| |
| | Download HTML-Kit from
www.chami.com (free) and open your page using
| | File->Open Url
| | Put your page address (for the "dodgy" server) in the Open Web or FTP Page
| | and tick the box Include HTTP Headers
| | Click OK
| |
| | The page should open in code view, starting with HTTP/1.1 200 OK
| | The code between this and the <HTML> tag (or <!Doctype if you use it) are
| | the HTTP headers the server is sending.
| | If there is a charset entry then this may be over-riding the character
| set
| | in your page.
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| | Ron Symonds (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
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| | | | > Ron,
| | > Thanks for your response. My meta tag is as follows:
| | >
| | > <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="fa">
| | > <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
| | > <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
| | > <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
| | >
| | > with the same meta tag, one server automatically displays Farsi
| | > properly, but another server, shows gibrish and to see proper language
| | > fonts, I have to click on IE6 Encoding and manually adjust to
| | > Unicode-8.
| | >
| | > Any more tricks I can set to show like the good server?
| | >
| | > Thanks.
| | > | | > You do not use CSS, you use a meta tag.
| | > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
| | > charset=windows-1252">
| | >
| | > Change windows-1252 to whatever character set you wish to use.
| | >
| | > However, if the server delivering the page includes a character set
| | > in its
| | > HTTP headers, it may over-ride the character set defined in your
| | > page.
| | >
| | > The only way to get symbols to render correctly 99.9% of the time is
| | > to code
| | > them as entities. See
| | >
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entitiesref.asp
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| | > Ron Symonds (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
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| | >
| | > | | > > Hello,
| | > >
| | > > In WebPages using Unicode-8 what css tag I can use so that when
| | > > accessed on Internet the user does not need to click adjust
| | > encoding
| | > > in IE6. Thanks experts.
| | > >
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