HTML LOCALIZATION
Now it’s time to make final changes to the HTML page. First, preview the page in a web browser to make sure the text is fully translated and that no HTML tags have been accidentally altered. Next, make sure the content within the <META> tags— such as keywords and descriptions—has been translated. Also make sure a <LANG> tag is included at the top of the page, and you have the correct charset attribute indicated, as follows:
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1”>
Many web pages specify windows-1252, but this is not recommended. You could also specify Unicode because it aligns perfectly with ISO 8859-1. However, the Unicode encoding is not recognized by older browsers, so you ...
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