Languages on Webpages

How to put languages on webpages. Thanks to this free advice, now you too can use multiple languages on your webpages.

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Language Examples

Here are some examples of languages displayed on a webpage. I'm using the word language, though you may argue technically I mean script or alphabet. Whatever.
  • Sanskrit परकत हगदपुतक रबह गद हबगलस ले्बूीांम
  • Hindi इन भाषाओं में
  • Bengali বাংলা
  • Telugu తెలుగు
  • Marathi मराठी
  • Tamil தமிழ்
  • Gujarati ગુજરાતી
  • Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ
  • Malayalam മലയാളം
  • Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ

UTF-8

Use UTF-8 character encoding everywhere. Set the character encoding to UTF-8 in your HTML, your editor, your database.

Set UTF-8 in HTML

Add the following meta-tag to the head section of every HTML webpage. 


			<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text-html; charset=utf-8">

Set UTF-8 in Database

Both mySQL and Postgres default to UTF-8, so you don't need to set it.

Set UTF-8 in Your Editor

In DreamWeaver, Modify --> Page Properties --> Title/Encoding , use the Encoding DD to change it to UTF-8.

In UltraEdit, File -> Conversions -> ASCII to UTF-8 (Unicode editing)

Keyboard Input

After changing language, bring up on-screen keyboard.
Control panel -> Ease of Access Center -> Start on-screen keyboard

An alternative to installing the Windows language keyboards: http://www.branah.com/

हऱङ रि त्
कखर र इि

Sanskrit uses Devanagari script, same as Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali.
But some vedic documents uses additional characters and accents that are not in this script, and not in unicode. This is a special issue being addressed by committees.

My Apps

Sanskrit Alphabet
Sanskrit Alphabet Complete
Sanskrit Malayalam
Notes on Alphabets
Sanskrit Notes

Resources

http://unicode-table.com/en/
Keywords