LOCALIZATION NOTES

The process of localizing for Japanese and Chinese is similar to the Russian web page. The steps are as follows:

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Copy the HTML text into a new Word document.
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Copy the Japanese or Chinese text into the new document.
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Make sure the correct <META> charset label is added.
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Save the document as “encoded text,” and select the correct encoding.
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Change the extension of the new document from “txt” to “html,” and preview the page in a various web browsers.

Why not use a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web editor, such as Dreamweaver or FrontPage? For starters, many web editors still do not fully support Asian text, such as Dreamweaver 3 or 4 or FrontPage 97. FrontPage 2000 does support Asian ...

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