GLOBAL GATEWAY: UNICODE STYLE

To illustrate how Unicode supports multiple scripts, you’ll re-create the global gateway using plain text. First, open the source web page and remove the graphics from the gateway. Then copy and paste the text as shown in Figure 6.

Figure 6. Insert the text links in their native scripts. Be sure to label the language of the text, such as <SPAN lang=”fr-FR”>. Also note that the direction tag is included for the Arabic text.

FrontPage automatically converts characters to fit within a specified default encoding. So if you have the web page configured for Latin 1, FrontPage converts any character that falls ...

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