Chinese Character Sets

I'm setting up a web site, as a favor for a friend, that will
be in Chinese and French. I'm not sure what the best page encoding
would be. My friend sent me some sample Chinese, and she said, "The
font I use is 'Simsun'." Otherwise, she is not very technical.
There are apparently 4 character sets available in
Dreamweaver that will display Chinese (after a fashion):
1. charset=big5: displays in both code and design view, but
Dreamweaver complains that not all characters can be displayed when
I save the file, and some characters appear as "?" in both IE7 and
Firefox. My friend says the characters don't look good.
2. charset=gb2312: displays correctly in Dreamweaver and both
of my browsers, and my friend says it looks OK.
3. charset=hz-gb-2312: displays correctly in Dreamweaver code
view, but not design view. Displays in both browsers I use, and my
friend says it looks OK. This is apparently a 7 bit code that will
encode both Chinese (as two byte characters) and ASCII. There is an
escape character, "~" for toggling between the two sets. The HTML
Dreamweaver creates seems to deal with this transparently.
4. charset=utf-8: doesn't display in Dreamweaver (code or
design view). Does seem to display correctly in my browsers, but my
friend doesn't like it.
I also noticed that although the characters displayed on my
desktop system, I got all "?" on my laptop. Then it occurred to me
that my friend had used my desktop to check her e-mail, so she had
apparently installed the correct font(s). I displayed the pages in
IE on my laptop, was prompted to install the fonts (Firefox didn't
mention a problem), and then the text also displayed on my laptop.
I intend to deal with this problem by creating any home page text
(there won't be much) as Fireworks images. Anyone looking at the
other Chinese text will undoubtedly have the correct fonts already.
If any of you have done anything like this before, I would be
grateful for any suggestions.

Clean & Sober wrote:
> 2. charset=gb2312: displays correctly in Dreamweaver and
both of my browsers,
> and my friend says it looks OK.
GB2312 is the correct character set for Chinese as used in
the People's
Republic. It's sometimes known as "simplified Chinese". That
doesn't
mean it's simple, but that the characters have been
modernized by
removing some of the more complex strokes.
To view pages written in Chinese or any other non-alphabetic
script, you
need to have the correct fonts installed. That shouldn't be a
problem
for the target audience.
David Powers
Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

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