Hi,

I'm currently doing a Japanese version of my site which a translator has translated into a MSWord document for me. I've decided to use Unicode instead of Shift-JIS to display Japanese characters, however I am unsure whether how I am doing it is the "right" way.

I specify the charset:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

Then copy and paste the Japanese text out of Word and into Frontpage where it converts it to what I think is Unicode, here's a sample:
を含む全ラグビークラブ及

Then I put that straight into Dreamweaver and it shows up fine. Is Frontpage really generating Unicode here or is it just ASCII?

Thanks.

opps, here's what Frontpage generates (with spaces so this site doesnt convert it):
& # 1 2 4 3  4 ; & # 2 1 5 4 7 ; & # 1 2 4 1 6 ; & # 2 0 8 4 0 ; & # 1 2 5 2 1 ; & # 1 2 4 6 4 ; & # 1 2 4 9 9 ; & # 1 2 5 4 0 ; & # 1 2 4 6 3 ; & # 1 2 5 2 1 ; & # 1 2 5 0 2 ; & # 2 1 4 5 0;

i think you can do the following

<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=shift_jis">

if xml set the encoding to shift_jis

Please repost either way on the results.  We are currently doing the same thing and 2 heads are better then one.  I am curious to find out your solution.  We were going down the UTF-8 path and setting ISO encodings... the shift_jis seems to produce the best results thus far.

Matt

Hey Matt,

I managed to find an excellent program for this sort of thing, its called Namo WebEditor and you can download a trial from http://www.namo.com/products/webeditor/

All I did was copied and pasted straight from Word, set the encoding in WebEditor and it created true UTF-8, Shift-JIS or even EUC encoded webpages - too easy. I'm not familiar with XML so I dont know about it with that but for plain HTML, WebEditor has really simplified the whole thing for me.

Good luck.

Thanx... our web gurus will be looking at it

Matt