Search engines unable to read coding properly - Page 2

Rulu · 10-19-2007, 08:00 AM

Hello Nic,

Thank you for reviewing my source program for the index.html page and for suggesting CHARSET = iso-8859-1.
My other web pages contain Chinese characters. I uniformly use UTF-8, so that I don't have to specify a font name for Chinese. So far it is working if you take a look at a bilingual page prayers.hthml. (I don't know whether you can tell correct Chinese words from garbled ones.)

As for the tag (a href =) versus (a href=), I have been able to get by with the former. I will check the codes posted at the site of the W3C School to make sure. Thanks.

In my preceding thread, I have reported that my problem has been resolved by resaving all files in the UTF-8 format on PSPad, a text editor new to me. So my problem was more of a format and text editor problem than coding.

nic · 10-20-2007, 01:02 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