Chapter No. 1 Web Publishing
Creation of Web Content using Indian Languages
By using Unicode and Indian language fonts Arial Unicode MS and Mangal
About Unicode:
Unicode is a computing
industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of
text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.
It is a standard
character set encoding developed and maintained by The Unicode Consortium.
It can support over
one million characters.
It supports all
characters from all scripts, as well as many symbols.
Unicode also knows as
UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format-8) or the Universal Alphabet.
Today all the web
browser and operating systems includes Unicode support.
Steps for
language settings in Windows
1. Go to
Control Panel
2. Click on
Clock, Language and Regional.
3. Click on
Change Keyboards or Other Input Methods options.
4. In
"Keyboards and Languages" box click on Change keyboards option.
5. In the "Text
Services and Input Languages" window, in the General tab, click on Add button.
6. In the Add
Input Language window, Search for your required indian language and click
the plus sign to open.
7. Now click
the plus sign to open Keyboard option and click on Devnagari In script checkbox.
8. Click on
the OK button.
9. Now in the
Text Services and Input Languages, click the Default Input Languages option and
click on the selected language e.g. Marathi - Devnagari Inscript option.
10. Click on the
Apply button.
11. Now in Language
bar, choose the option Docked in Taskbar to display the Language bar on Taskbar
of Windows Desktop.
12. Click on the
Apply button and Click OK.
13. Now you can type
in the indian language by selection the option from the Language bar displayed
on the Taskbar.
Open Notepad and Type the text in <body> section by changing the language from the
language bar.
While saving the
file, select encoding as UNICODE in the Save As dialog box.
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