language translation - please take a look at this website http://www.wechsel-tents.de my question is about the language used for this website for any

sudhakararaog · 8th February 2010, 05:28 AM

please take a look at this website http://www.wechsel-tents.de

my question is about the language used for this website

for any websites that are not in english, how is it possible to display the characters in a particular language as the standard keyword has no options to display certain characters of a foreign language for example = ä this character from the above website cannot be found on a standard keyboard

also the meta content type is charset=iso-8859-1 which would be used for a website whose language is in english

do people use any special software for this

or do people initially type the content in english and use tools like google translate Google Translate and convert english text into a particular foreign language and then simply copy and paste this foreign letters into the html pages of these websites which do not have the language as english

if a website uses a cms then there are modules which will take care of changing the language automatically based on which language a user selects

however in a case like the website above which have the entire website created in a non english language and do not use any cms, how do people go about creating such websites in their html pages as the tags are the same like any normal html page, only the text is different

please advice.

thanks for your help

please also provide any links which have literature in this regard

CloudedVision · 8th February 2010, 07:08 AM

Here's a good read: mezzoblue HTML and Foreign Languages

And for inputting foreign characters, that all depends on your operating system. Mac has a quite nice way of doing it, (eg: Alt+u then u again) but other operating systems you can usually find an onscreen keyboard and set it to the desired language.

shalom_m · 14th February 2010, 11:23 AM

I have a number of sites in multiple languages.
English, Hebrew, Arabic, German, Italian, Russian/Cyrillic, Swahili and Amharic (the language of Ethiopia).

With the exception of Amharic, all the others can be accommodated with charset=utf-8.

If you are using a PC, just load the appropriate language settings for your keyboard and toggle between the different languages. You do not have to physically swap keyboards.
Read more here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/he...514161033.aspx
So if you set it to German, the "ä" is on the "'" key.
It may help if you print out the keyboard layout first.
See: Keyboard layout - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Note: for the Semitic languages you will also need a Right to Left function. HTML accommodates that too.

8th February 2010, 05:28 AM	#1
sudhakararaog Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 108 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Expertise: Total Beginner Experience: Basic / None	language translation please take a look at this website http://www.wechsel-tents.de my question is about the language used for this website for any websites that are not in english, how is it possible to display the characters in a particular language as the standard keyword has no options to display certain characters of a foreign language for example = ä this character from the above website cannot be found on a standard keyboard also the meta content type is charset=iso-8859-1 which would be used for a website whose language is in english do people use any special software for this or do people initially type the content in english and use tools like google translate Google Translate and convert english text into a particular foreign language and then simply copy and paste this foreign letters into the html pages of these websites which do not have the language as english if a website uses a cms then there are modules which will take care of changing the language automatically based on which language a user selects however in a case like the website above which have the entire website created in a non english language and do not use any cms, how do people go about creating such websites in their html pages as the tags are the same like any normal html page, only the text is different please advice. thanks for your help please also provide any links which have literature in this regard

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CloudedVision Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Your Imagination Posts: 624 Blog Entries: 4 Thanks: 1 Thanked 22 Times in 21 Posts Expertise: PHP Experience: Professional	Here's a good read: mezzoblue HTML and Foreign Languages And for inputting foreign characters, that all depends on your operating system. Mac has a quite nice way of doing it, (eg: Alt+u then u again) but other operating systems you can usually find an onscreen keyboard and set it to the desired language. __________________ Panthr - Web Design and Development

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14th February 2010, 11:23 AM	#3
shalom_m Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Or-Yehuda, Israel Posts: 397 Thanks: 0 Thanked 16 Times in 16 Posts Expertise: (X)HTML / CSS Experience: Quite Good	I have a number of sites in multiple languages. English, Hebrew, Arabic, German, Italian, Russian/Cyrillic, Swahili and Amharic (the language of Ethiopia). With the exception of Amharic, all the others can be accommodated with charset=utf-8. If you are using a PC, just load the appropriate language settings for your keyboard and toggle between the different languages. You do not have to physically swap keyboards. Read more here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/he...514161033.aspx So if you set it to German, the "ä" is on the "'" key. It may help if you print out the keyboard layout first. See: Keyboard layout - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Note: for the Semitic languages you will also need a Right to Left function. HTML accommodates that too.