How does my weblog perform using unicode. See also: Survival guide to i18n. Some tests:
これは日本語のテキストです。読めますか
Let's see how Unicode and weblogs does with Japanese :) これは日本語のテキストです。読めますか？...
Let us test some Hindi Text
देखें हिन्दी कैसी नजर आती है। अरे वाह ये तो नजर आती है।
And check...
Excellent job!
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Added support for xml:lang on more elements now, thanks for letting me know.
[...] Unicode support in WordPress I just love it! As you can see in my previous post WordPress handles all kind or characters [...]
Supporting other character sets is a good start for a i18n-ed site. This allows you to add some texts in other languages.
The difficulty comes when you need to serve a completely japanese page to your Japanese visitors, and a completely english page to your English visitors. Having your navigation and lay-out work in multiple languages is a hell
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Using the generator found in the post: Lorem Ipsum with other charsets on wg. Thanks Nate!
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Looks like it worked! Although I'm not sure I understand the subject well enough to be sure.
Initiate Swedish umlaut test:
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Swedish umlaut test completed.
So do you speak Japanese or Hindi?
क्या बात है। अच्छा लगा आप की प्रविष्टि देख कर। English: Wow that is cool. It is good to see your post.
पंकज Pankaj
Adding to PHP's unicode trouble, MSIE is buggy representing Japanese kanji and therefore large part of the Chinese charset (at least via UTF-8, there may be proprietary solutions I don't want to know about). For Japanese you can circumvent this only by limiting yourself to hiragana and katakana charset.
Beeing a programmer and not a linguist, I've to say that it is a mess, really. Just have a look at Joe Spolsky's site in Chinese. If not even he can deal with it, who can?
On lorem-ipsum.info/generator2 I just left out all Japanese/Chinese chars that MSIE cant't handle (took me hours to find out), so don't get fooled...
Just noticed: The Chinese example in post no.5 needs the xml:lang="zh" attribute, strictly speaking.
Speaking ...ah, sloppily, it needs lang="zh" too -which is not a valid xml attribute- to display well with MSIE...
This is a test of Hebrew language support.
אני מדבר עברית
Contrary to my earlier remark, the "lang" attribute gets validated as XHTML Strict by validator.w3.org, nevertheless it gets rejected as "not well-formed" here.
Testing hebrew and arabic I see that the dir attribute and the bdo tag get rejected to, so right to left text orientation is not possible in this weblog, though words and chars are displayed in the right order.
Test:
العربية
עברית
Yeah, the LANG attribute is a left over of HTML 4.01 so I won't allow it here. I care about semantics, not about what validates. (At least, for my personal site I do.)
Are you saying I need to allow both DIR attribute and BDO element or is support just fine already?
To enable right to left text orientation you should allow the dir attribute, else msgs. look funny for arab/hebrew etc. speakers, even if they can read them. (by the way, I added arab/hebrew to my generator)
As for the despised lang attribute, you can do without as only MSIE needs it for CJK languages, whose unicode-based CJK support is buggy anyway (unless you use CJK MSIE or WinOS versions, I guess); nevertheless attributes do not add semantic clutter, it's tags that do IMO.
Though you are certainly free to do as you like, I don't subscribe to the concept of forcing visitors to know and apply (X)HTML - as a general concept for cms/blog software it's not applicable, though it certainly gives us geeks a way to show and demand prowess.
In the end the web is about enabling communication, so plain text + optionally some simple markup should rule; URL to href conversion and XML/unicode charset handling should be up to the maintainer’s software. Leaving it to the user to set the appropriate dir attributes and xml:lang iso country codes is technically easier, but that's not failsafe as users are error prone; as of yet I don't know of systems that check if the entered language codes/dir attributes actually match the entered chars.
re: Chinese example in post no.5
Fiddling around, I just noticed:
BTW: I see that the b tag gets rejected here too, AFAIK it's not deprecated but reserved for physical stress, in contrast to logical emphasis; dunno, in Germany we call that beeing more popish than the pope ..no offense meant, long live John Paul :)
Hmm... Bug 75011 seems to be showing up in a lot of these posts.
Funny, I can't reproduce Bug 75011 neither here nor at bugzilla's example site. (Moz1.5 on WinXPSP1)
...anyway, the bug is mozilla related, it's not about unicode or it's implementation on this site or elsewhere