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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Summary

• For Simplified Chinese, use 30-40 characters per line. Traditional Chinese pages need less and larger characters, usually 20-30 characters per line.
• Stay with Song typeface for body text.
• Make sure the correct character set is specified in the HTML code for the webpages, especially the frames.
• Page titles should be in both English and Chinese, since some browsers running in non-Chinese OS may not display them correctly.
• Provide a link on the home page leading to how to download third-party Chinese rendering software. Both the link and the page should be given as text-as-images.
• If information is extremely important, give it as an image.

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