Hi Ted,
Thank you for your kind reply. As I get the list messages in digest form I
am a bit slow in replying. If you wish to see the effect I am trying to
create, please have a look at http:www.dot.net.au/~kazumi/examples . I want
to display within two columns of a table the English on the left and the
Japanese on the right so that customers can compare the translator's work.
As you mentioned, I took the Japanese version, which was a Word doc, I saved
it as an HTML doc, I went into preferences and of several choices of html
encoding - I chose multilanguage Unicode UTF-8 to display to save. If I
chose JIS or EUC I didn't get a good result. I then opened the saved html
doc in Arachnophilia, cut the sections of code and goobly gook that
represented the Japanese and pasted into the right column of the table on my
English html page, cut out all the extraneous code, then set my browser
encoding, initially IE5 (I haven't been game to look at NN yet) to Unicode
and it displayed ok. However, if I look at the page using JIS or use JIS to
encode the html, which I understand many Japanese speakers use, many of the
characters are substituted. I can get around this by asking viewers to
switch to Unicode but I'd rather cater to them than the other way round. I
will be having to do more and more bilingual websites in the future so I was
hoping the list might have some hints or experience to share. I am a
relative novice with this stuff (I have received invaluable help in the past
from the list and I read the digests avidly) so I hope you won't mind a
quick explanation of an "include page" - do you mean like putting a pdf link
in the table? The only other includes I understand is like putting in client
side stuff with JavaScript. So could you be refering to a Javascript object
in the table that writes the Japanese text doc? As I said, I am a novice -
know even less than Redding hill folk! Thanks again for your help.
Mike

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