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shweta
07-14-2003, 04:09 AM
hi,
i want to develop a gujarati website. (Indian Language)
i m using Unicode. but facing problems.

I did following things after writing some gujarati text in frontpage.

1. Install Saumil_guj2 font in control panel ( its a gujarati font)

2. In the Page Options Dialog Box i select Multilingual(UTF- 8) from Language (character set)
then i select Lucida Console from Default proportional
font
then i select Arial Unicode Ms from Deafult Fixed width
font.

3. In the Page properties dialog box i click on language tab
and select gujrati from page language.
then select Multilingual[UTF-8] from save the document as

4. Then i included the following doctype at the begining

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN">

5. Then i included language in html tag like this :
<html lang="[gu]">

6. Then i included the following in the head

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="gu">

...thats it!


For testing purpose i always delete the Saumil_guj2 font from control panel. and then i'll
check in which language browser produces the text?

but is it correct method for testing?


waiting for ur help

thanks
-Shweta
MikeParent
07-14-2003, 08:15 AM
Some Googling turned up this : http://www.cet.middlebury.edu/rsrc_multilingual.php
shweta
07-14-2003, 11:33 PM
hi,
nice guide! but it is only suitable for WINDOWS XP and WINDOWS 2000. I m working on WIN 98.
Can i use Unicode for WIN 98?

Please go through the following url. It has details regarding installation of Unicode for frontpage 2000.

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/utilities_editors.html#fp2000


I have made the changes accourdingly in my frontpage.

but is it sufficient? if yes...then how can i test it? coz right now i dont have any server to taste.

or can i taste it on Personal Web server?

thanks

waiting for ur help
-Shweta
Astrolegoboy
07-15-2003, 01:09 AM
Why not try translating your site versus hardcoding with a font that the user is going to have to download. Not sure if this can be done in the language you are trying but it might work in reverse (gujarati - to - english or other language). The link below contains a code wizard and looks relatively straightforward with little recoding on your part:

TransLingo (http://developers.evrsoft.com/translingo/translingo.pl)

HTH's
shweta
07-19-2003, 12:09 AM
hi,
still its unsolved...!!!

do u guys have any other suggession?

here r some links for gujarati website.

to view these sites we doesnt have any need to downlaod the specific font.

i want to develop like this only.

http://www.sandesh.com/

http://www.sambhaav.com/

http://www.jaihinddaily.com/

I wish u will find some solution...

waiting for ur help

thanks
-Shweta
shweta
07-19-2003, 05:12 AM
Hi,
I m tring to get some informatiom regarding
charset=x-user-defined

i hope something comes out...

i'll let u know soon

Thanks
-Shweta
GDS
07-19-2003, 09:24 AM
Look at the source for the site sandesh.com.
It contains this line of code:

<script language="JavaScript" src="/weblipi/weblipi.js"> </script>


Take a closer look at the file weblipi.js


GDS
shweta
07-22-2003, 10:49 PM
Hi,
www.sandesh.com is using Dynamic font.
they have two files of their font.
1 .eot
2 .pfr

and one java script for opening these two files from server.

I think this is the best way.

I have created .eot file of Saumil_guj2 font using WEFT application.

And its working fine on my comp though i didn't have the same font installed on my pc.... coz i have ie.

But now there is a need to create .pfr file of the same font for netscape.

and i m not getting how to create .pfr file????

Can u help me??

Waiting for ur help...
Thanks
-Shweta
devarajanvenkat
05-25-2004, 03:28 PM
Hello, Shweta,
I wonder if you got any solution for the issue of entering Indian language text in Unicode format.
I have been experimenting with many methods for entering Tamil Unicode text.
True, I enter the text using Tamil Editor like Keyman. But the tamil text does not appesr either in editor or preview windows!!
I had posted my problem separately.

Can any one help?
Kishor
08-06-2004, 03:13 PM
Sweta
The following works try it out on your browser.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<TITLE>Unicode 2 Kishor Raval</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<font size=2>
કિશોર રાવળ
</BODY>
</HTML>