CREATING MULTILINGUAL WEB PAGES

The degree of success you have developing multilingual web pages depends on the software (and version) you’re using. Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage are the two most popular visual development tools on the market, but they are not equally strong in managing various languages. Although FrontPage 2000 fully supports the input and display of Unicode text, Dreamweaver does not (see Figures 12.4 and 12.5).

Figure 12.4. FrontPage 2000 supports the input of Japanese text…

Figure 12.5. …but Dreamweaver does not. Instead of displaying Japanese characters, Dreamweaver displays question marks.

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