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**whoam1** · 09-10-2005, 09:12 AM

Hi, I would need to create some html pages with Hindu text.
I am suppose to copy the text from a word document, but when I attempted to save it as UTF-8 fomat,
'outlet name' become something like 'nqdku dk uke'.

Is there any way I can display the hindu text on html? Thanks!

**praveen** · 09-10-2005, 09:39 AM

u need to have that font enabled in your system, html editor etc..

and then you need to incorporate the same in your website/server wherein these texts are parsed in the server and displayed inthe page

or offer the font to the visitors to download and then view the site.(which is a pain).

**whoam1** · 09-25-2005, 11:54 PM

Hi, can you elabrate on:
"and then you need to incorporate the same in your website/server wherein these texts are parsed in the server and displayed inthe page"

I had:

1. Installed the font on my computer

2. Encoded my html files as "ISO-8859-1".
e.g.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

3. Use the font-face "Kruti Dev 021" for my html characters.
e.g.
<STYLE type="text/css">

</STYLE>
<span class="hindu">ohlk â€“ fjczkf.Max</span>

Wonder if there is anything else I can do? Thanks~~!

**whoam1** · 09-26-2005, 12:05 AM

Also, wonder how come although I can see part of the hindu text display on IE, I cannot get any of the text to display properly on the Firefox browser, please advise. Thank you!

**Kaiman** · 01:32 AM

Have you tried using the language meta-tags in your document like this for Hindu in India for example:

<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="hindu-in"/>

This should help browsers parse the Hindu characters correctly.

You could also use the html tags like this by placing them after your doc type and before the opening <head> tag:

<html lang=hindu-in>

Let me know if either of these helps,

Kaiman

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