CPU issues / using foreign letters in websites / drizzi 19 years ago

using foreign letters in websites

so i got this small job to do a website for a person offereing german-russian translations. i got a couple docs with texts and some of them are written in russian. does anyone know how i can get russian letters to display on a website? they display fine in the docs but copy/pasting it into my sourcecode will display all letters as questionmarks in the browser. i was thinking its probably just clientside and display just fine for people who have russian letters activated?

Anulien 19 years ago

Well sir, that isnt too hard of a thing. You will need a few new elements in your code though



<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" Content="en">

<META Content-Type: text/html; charset=UNICODE>

you can get a list of the language short names and charsets from http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset-lang.html

Everything you want to know about all this can be found at http://www.w3.org/International/ specifically about language and character sets.