HOWTO Internet

• Set the characterset of the document

For HTML documents

<META http-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/plain; charset=big5">


For XML documents

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Big5" ?>



• Set the lang-attribute


<p lang="fr">...French text interrupted by<em lang="ja">some Japanese</em>French begins here again...</p>


more info: language information and text direction (W3C)


• Display characters and symbols

&NAME; : the name → &aacute; = á
&#;VALUE; : Decimal value → &225; = á
&#;xVALUE; : Hexadecimal value → &xE1; = á


• Display text vertically


這是一個test. 好玩吧


The code for the above notation is :


<div style="writing-mode:tb-rl">這是一個test.好玩吧</div>


This function is only available on MS IE > 5.5, Netscape does NOT support this.


• Ruby

See the special ruby howto