I have a client who wants me to create a Mandarin Chinese version of the site for him.
Is there anything special I have to do in order to show this language on a website?
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I have a client who wants me to create a Mandarin Chinese version of the site for him.
Is there anything special I have to do in order to show this language on a website?
You need to specify a font that includes Chinese ideographs.
You need to use a character encoding that can represent those characters (preferably UTF-8).
You should specify the language using the lang attribute. Do it for the root element if the whole page is in Mandarin, or for a specific container if only part of the page is in Chinese.
For HTML:
For real XHTML:HTML Code:<html lang="zh">
For pretend-XHTML (served as text/html):HTML Code:<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="zh">
HTML Code:<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="zh" lang="zh">
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