On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> I've been asked whether we can host some pages and CGI for research
> purposes that will be written in "Simplified Chinese". I don't know the
> first thing about hosting data using non-English character sets... But it
> seems to be more a browser-side issue than a server-side issue. Am I
> correct? Or would I need to modify the server (a stock RH RPM install, I
> think)? Is there any reason not to say, "Yes!"?
>
> -Alan
Hi Alan,
I've been designing 2 sites over the past few months that are planning to
implement 3 languages. There are many methods that can be taken to do
this, but as long as you are just serving up the 'odd' page translated to
Simplified Chinese then you shouldn't require server mods. You should set
the character set and language using HTML though.
If you planned on using Apache content-negotiation to serve pages
depending on the language of the user's browser, then you would need to
know some apache directives. The sites I am working with want every page
translated into all 3 languages, including dynamic database content, so I
chose to use PHP with PHPLIB templates and a single apache directive based
on the url selected. This requires that PHP be included (we use it as a
module, but there is an RPM as well).
Apart from those there is also gettext (I think) ... but I couldn't figure
out what it was saying :)
It's true that the browser needs to recognize the character set that you
select, and that is defined in the browser, and there can be more than one
available per browser. You should define the charset of the document in
your html.
For a good discussion on the charset and other multi-lingual design
considerations, visit Babel at
http://babel.alis.com:8080/
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