Ted Byers wrote:
I am familiar with the notion of a code page, in creating web content, but I could use some guidance on what is needed in order to be able to handle multiple languages, and the peculiarities of their various scripts, on a single machine (with a US style keyboard).
Write everything in UTF8 (assuming that will cover the languages you are interested in), and change your keyboard mapping according to which language you're writing. With Arabic, you may have a directional issue, afaik, Arabic is written right-to-left.
As the intent is to eventually post my content on the web (via my own server), the traditional word processor, such as M$ Word, may not be appropriate (the last time I looked, the HTML that M$ Word produced was horrible and very inefficient, although that was a while ago, so maybe such products have improved).
Any editor will do, although you'd have to add the HTML yourself. I think that's a very minor issue though.
The second thing I need is a way to have multilingual content on the same website, giving a visitor the ability to read both the English and the translation of it 9side by side or inter-lineal), so he or she can check the quality of the translation (and perhaps give me suggestions to help me improve my understanding of the languages I am trying to learn. I have reached out to the Wordpress forum about this, but it is low traffic and there has been no response yet.
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