Language Support

jeff / 08.Mar.2008

Today we migrated YikeSite into a UTF-8 database. This means that we should now be able to accept more languages. Basic testing has proven that you can input some pretty funky characters into YikeSite, save and display them.

You can also create page names with UTF-8 characters in them. One caveat though is that we base the page’s URL on the name and there are restrictions in what characters can be in a URL. We will try to convert your url to one as close as possible to the page name though and we’ll strip out any characters that don’t conform to a standard URL.

What You Need

1. Specify in HTML

In your theme HTML, put this at the top in between the <head> tags:

<META http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8”>

2. Specify a UTF Font

A safe one seems to be “Lucida Sans Unicode” and most people will have this font by default (and is specified in the default YikeSite theme). Lucida Sans Unicode has 1775 glyphs. Times New Roman, Arial, Courier and Impact should also handle most major Latin-alphabet, Greek and Cyrillic languages and all contain 653 glyphs.

Help Us Out

Please report any issues you may have with integrating other languages in your YikeSite pages. Just post a comment here and we’ll try to work it out together. Thanks!

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