A combination of specifying the character set, language and the direction
the text is written.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#h-5.2 discusses character sets.
Language and direction is given by the lang and dir attributes
respectively.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.1
I recommend a pot of coffee before, and a beer after, reading these
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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?
curious
| 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
| >
| > --
| > 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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