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Posted by Mathias K. on 07/19/07 16:39
Am Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:16:46 -0500 schrieb Ben C:
> On 2007-07-19, Mathias K. <mformetalhead@yahoo.de> wrote:
>> Thanks for your answer.
>>
>> Actually i don't even want to display a whole text in columns from top to
>> bottom and right to left, it's only one column.
>>
>> Within an online dictionary i want to display the original Japanese word in
>> a vertical column in the left, and to the right there shall be the
>> readings, translation and descriptions. So i want it to be written
>> vertically also for practical reasons.
>>
>> Usually i could achieve this effect by putting a <br> tag between every
>> character. Now here's the problem: I'm working with PHP, which is not (yet)
>> UTF-8 compatible. Thus, i cannot simply split every byte (character) as i
>> could do with Western language strings, since Japanese characters can be 2
>> to 6 bytes long. That's why i hoped to find a HTML solution to this.
>>
>>:-\
>
> You could just put the word in a very narrow container since line breaks
> are allowed between Japanese characters.
>
> e.g.
>
> <div style="width: 1px">
> オンライン和英辞典
> </div>
>
> You might of course want to put that whole div in a slightly wider one
> so the text doesn't overlap things to the right.
Dang! I didn't know linebreaks were allowed between Japanaese characters!
^^
Thanks SOOOO much! :D
It just works perfectly. ^_^
~ Mathias
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