Access Washington Language Resources

Display Problems

If your computer is not displaying the correct characters for this language, you may need to do one or all of the following:

• Install a font for this language:
• Cambodian
• Chinese
• Korean
• Russian
• Vietnamese

NOTE: For help installing these fonts, go to

• How do I download non-English language fonts?
• How do I install non-English language fonts?
  
  
• For Microsoft XP Office users, download language packs

  NOTE: For help installing these fonts, go to How do I download and install non-English language fonts for Windows XP?

• Simplified Chinese language pack
• Korean language pack
• Upgrade your browser
  • AOL
  • Internet Explorer
  • Mozilla FireFox
  • Opera
• Change your browser options - see http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/browsers.html

For more information about how browsers interpret and display multi language characters, see the following:

• Explanation of encoding - foreign language display is determined by how text is numerically encoded on the Internet.
• Unicode - information from the Unicode Consortium
  • What is Unicode?
  • Unicode and the internet
  • Display problems?
• Browsing and Developing Non-English Web Sites

Recommendations for Web Development

When creating multi-language Web pages, the following is recommended:

• Declare the encoding in your metatags - use either UTF-8 or the encoding for the specific language you want to display:
  
  
  <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
  or
  <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
  
  
• Declare the language:
  
  
  <META http-equiv="Content-Language" content="xx">
  or
  <P lang=xx></P> where "xx" is the alpha-2 language code as determined by ISO 639-1
  
  
• Specify a Unicode font - such as Arial Unicode MS or Lucida Sans Unicode:
  
  
  BODY { FONT-FAMILY: Arial Unicode MS, Arial, Geneva, sans serif; }
  
  
• If a special language font is required, provide a link to a site where the user can download the font.
  
  
• Include a notice on your page to inform users what steps to take to display the page correctly.