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nic · 10-20-2007, 02:02 AM

To help both in Chinese or English you can specifiy the page language

HTML 4.01
<head lang="en-US">

XHTML
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">

lang="en" twice is the attribute default namespace binding to the element and the attribute key.

I don't know what it is in Chinese but you can look it up at www.w3c.org .

Note: You probably accidently saved your page in "unicode",
A character byte for UTF-8 contains 8bits but if it were unicode or UTF-16
then it would contain 2 bytes p/character (hence the space and its really
a character that has no visible font descriptor for the machine data number
and the bytes are being read and assembled by the browser as single byte
because of the declaration).
Charset mappings for human readable systems in machines www.unicode.org

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nic Junior Member Join Date: 10-19-07 Location: Australia Posts: 28 iTrader: 0 / 0% Latest Blog: None	To help both in Chinese or English you can specifiy the page language HTML 4.01 <head lang="en-US"> XHTML <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> lang="en" twice is the attribute default namespace binding to the element and the attribute key. I don't know what it is in Chinese but you can look it up at www.w3c.org . Note: You probably accidently saved your page in "unicode", A character byte for UTF-8 contains 8bits but if it were unicode or UTF-16 then it would contain 2 bytes p/character (hence the space and its really a character that has no visible font descriptor for the machine data number and the bytes are being read and assembled by the browser as single byte because of the declaration). Charset mappings for human readable systems in machines www.unicode.org Last edited by nic : 10-20-2007 at 02:22 AM.