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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 11/02/06 22:13
Scripsit Gary:
> One of my sites is to be translated into Chinese.
> I'm familiar in coding the "Unicode" based language sets, so for the
> most part it's fine.
There is nothing "Unicode based" in Chinese or in any other language or set
of languages. Chinese was written thousands of years before Unicode was
invented, and spoken even much longer.
What you probably _mean_ is that you are intending to use some Unicode
encoding for pages in Chinese. That's possible, of course, and perhaps
practical.
> But metatags: I usually do a "description" and "keywords" tag.
You shouldn't waste your time on them. Search engines have largely ignored
them for years, or counted them just as important, or somewhat less
important, than normal textual content. So put the relevant words into the
content, and start the content in an interesting way. This should keep you
so busy that you wan't play with <meta> fantasies.
But technically, there is nothing special in the contents of <meta> tag
attributes when you use a Unicode encoding. If you used, say, ISO-8859-7
encoding for an HTML document, surely you would use - you would _have_ to
use - it inside those attributes, too. There is no way to change the
encoding within an HTML document.
> It's an odd scenario because if the metatags are meant to be part of
> an indexing process, why would a chinese web-page be indexed in
> english words?
Huh? It's your _question_ that has an odd scenario. You're confusing
encoding with languages.
I guess you're really asking whether an attribute value can contain
non-ASCII characters in HTML. It surely can. You can use any characters
there.
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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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