HTML web page doctype declaration issue
Question
i am designing a webpage which should support the all languages utf-8 . unfortunately some language characters are not recognising on IE but it loks fine on mozilla & chrome, why ?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html> <head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head> <body>
<p>Chinese Text : 您好世界 </p>
<p> Indian text : हेलो विश्व </p>
</body>
</html>
but when i remove the very first line, characters shows on internet explorer (IE) too.
Removed : <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
Can someone explain please, what should be correct doctype declaration for multilingual support.
2 answers
solution1
11 2011-12-29 09:46:48
Your charset is currently set to ISO-8859-1 , which is the character set for Western European characters. Change it to UTF-8 to have support for all the Unicode characters:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
solution2
0 2011-12-29 13:20:35
Check out answers to question 3867678 . They seem to say that IE 8 has by default no font set for Chinese characters (though I suppose this applies to some installations only). Setting the font in CSS should help, though I'm not sure what might be an optimal font family list; maybe something like
font-family: Arial Unicode MS, PMingLiU, MingLiU, SimSun
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