# Developing site in Chinese? **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [March 24, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/developing-site-in-chinese/183211 "2006-03-24T17:13:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pierce\_Bronkite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/258eb7/32.png) [@Pierce\_Bronkite](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Pierce_Bronkite)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/developing-site-in-chinese/183211/1 "2006-03-24T17:13:23Z")
I have a client that would like to have there english version of there existing site to also be translated in to Chinese. My problem is I have no idea where to start and the potential pitfalls (if any). Does anyone on here have any experience with that? TIA ---
**Author:** ![955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/4bbf92/32.png) [@955](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/955)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/developing-site-in-chinese/183211/2 "2006-03-24T17:18:16Z")
Use UTF-8 as your encoding, and be sure to use a Chinese font. ---
**Author:** ![Theros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Theros](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Theros)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/developing-site-in-chinese/183211/3 "2006-03-24T17:19:13Z")
Obviously, there would be translation problems, as you couldnt directly translate it… But, only thing that would make it 100% correct is to get a translator to do it for you… Otherwise, putting into a online translator thing (bablefish) would be incorrect language wise… Sorry, cant help you any more than that ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Pierce\_Bronkite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/258eb7/32.png) [@Pierce\_Bronkite](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Pierce_Bronkite)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/developing-site-in-chinese/183211/4 "2006-03-24T17:24:10Z")
I have all of the language translated so that is not a problem. Is there anything that I need to change on the DOC type? Does anyone know what a standard Chinese Font is? Thanks for the help. ---
**Author:** ![Theros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Theros](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Theros)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/developing-site-in-chinese/183211/5 "2006-03-24T17:26:18Z")
Maybe, take a look at the source code of existing chinese sites? ---
**Author:** ![MTsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MTsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MTsoul)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/developing-site-in-chinese/183211/6 "2006-03-24T17:52:03Z")
[www.bbsland.com](http://www.bbsland.com) is a huge chinese site my dad always visits. ---
**Author:** ![Insomniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bb73d2/32.png) [@Insomniac](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Insomniac)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/developing-site-in-chinese/183211/7 "2006-03-24T17:59:42Z")
I’ve written websites in Arabic before, which needed the text direction changed. Apart from that, I can’t recall having any problems with the html. ---
**Author:** ![MTsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MTsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MTsoul)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/developing-site-in-chinese/183211/8 "2006-03-24T18:05:09Z")
[QUOTE=λ]Use UTF-8 as your encoding, and be sure to use a Chinese font.[/QUOTE] I think the encoding has to be GB2312 (Chinese Simplified) or Big5 (Chinese Traditional). UTF-8 probably won’t support as many characters. ---
**Author:** ![ya3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/developing-site-in-chinese/183211/9 "2006-03-25T05:29:56Z")
It’s a two-stage process. First, you convert all your English text into pseudo-broken-grammar-English, then use Babelfish to translate it. For example: \*\*original text: \*\*"I am making this website and then translating it into another language" **modified text:** “Website what it is, and another language to facilitate to what my kindly does, and what I intend furthermore to complete.” \*\*translated text: \*\*网站是什么它, 和其他语言促进对什么我亲切做, 并且什么我打算此外完成。 Perfect 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![hybrid101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7993a0/32.png) [@hybrid101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hybrid101)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 5:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/developing-site-in-chinese/183211/10 "2006-03-25T05:36:31Z")
^:lol:made my day, engrish:lol: ---
**Author:** ![MTsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MTsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MTsoul)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 6:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/developing-site-in-chinese/183211/11 "2006-03-25T06:23:14Z")
The translated text of Chinese made absolutely no sense. ---
**Author:** ![ya3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 6:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/developing-site-in-chinese/183211/12 "2006-03-25T06:29:51Z")
:lol: ---
**Author:** ![minimalistik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@minimalistik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/minimalistik)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 7:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/developing-site-in-chinese/183211/13 "2006-03-25T07:11:33Z")
If it’s going to be Flash, then it will be easy but if normal html, if I am not mistaken, you need to have the Chinese language installed on your computer? ---
**Author:** ![955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/4bbf92/32.png) [@955](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/955)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 10:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/developing-site-in-chinese/183211/14 "2006-03-25T10:47:27Z")
> [@MTsoul](#): > > I think the encoding has to be GB2312 (Chinese Simplified) or Big5 (Chinese Traditional). UTF-8 probably won’t support as many characters. UTF-8 will support exactly as many characters, being a universal character set 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Pierce\_Bronkite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/258eb7/32.png) [@Pierce\_Bronkite](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Pierce_Bronkite)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/developing-site-in-chinese/183211/15 "2006-03-26T14:11:18Z")
It will be a normal HTML site. And yes minimalistik I believe I should have the chinese language installed on my PC. My problem is knowing what a default HTML Chinese font is?