Ted Byers wrote:
Thanks for this,
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On 14-03-05 02:54 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
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.
Is there a key combination that lets me dynamically change from one keyboard mapping to another? And is there documentation somewhere that tells me what that mapping is in the case where the script includes characters and accents that do not exist on my keyboard?
The mapping is definitely documented, google will find them for you.
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 (side 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. Use iframes - e.g. two frames side by side. The left pulls the original document, the right one the translation.
I am guessing that I will probably have to write my own plugin(s) to both display and edit my content, to do all I require, perhaps extending WordPress' existing editor.
Writing your own would be re-inventing the wheel, there's plenty of in-browser editors out there if that's what you want. Personally I wouldn't take that approach, I would just use vi.
I wonder if such an editor can dynamically change the keyboard mapping based on the language of the document displayed in the current editor window when that window received focus?
Almost certainly not.
And, I guess I may have to experiment with loading free online english-'other language' dictionaries and grammars in iframes. But, don't some sites include code that prevents their pages from being loaded in an iframe (to protect copyrighted material)?
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