Designing for Overseas Chinese Readers: Some Guidelines

Designing for Overseas Chinese Readers: Some Guidelines

1. Introduction
2. Font Size, Typeface and Characters per Line
3. HTML Coding: Charset Code
4. HTML Coding: Page Titles
5. Display of Different Character Sets: Solution One
6. Display of Different Character Sets: Solution Two
7. Summary
8. References

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HTML Coding: Page Titles

If the user is using a browser running in a non-Chinese OS environment, page titles in Chinese will be either displayed incorrectly (as in Internet Explorer), or replaced with question marks (as in Netscape Navigator). This is true for both Mac OS and Windows OS. This means that web pages written specially for overseas Chinese should have page titles written both in Chinese and English. One solution is to separate the Chinese part from the English description with a dash, as chinese.yahoo.com and several other portal sites do.

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