Setting language and font preferences

The Encodings and Fonts preferences settings let you select a default language script, customize the Document Encoding submenu, and set default fonts.

To activate encodings:

1 Choose Edit > Preferences, and click the Modules icon in the left pane of the Preferences dialog box. Check to see if the Encodings module is selected. If it isn't selected, you must select it, and restart Adobe GoLive to initialize it.

2 Choose Edit > Preferences, and click the Encodings icon.

3 Select the desired encoding option. Encodings that are not activated and supported by the system software don't appear in the File > Document Encoding submenu.

4 To make an encoding option the default, select the name of the option, and then select Default Encoding, or simply double-click the option name. The name of the default selection appears in boldface and underlined.

5 Select Use Charset Info to include the encoding and character set information in the Content attribute of the Meta tag. When this option is selected, Adobe GoLive tries to recognize the encoding based on the characters used. Deselect this option to eliminate language information from the HTML page header.

6 The Scanning Limit Characters text box defines the number of bytes that you want Adobe GoLive to search in order to find encoding and character set information when it opens a file. Deselect Use Charset Info to turn off this option automatically.

To select default fonts for an encoding system:

1 Choose Edit > Preferences, and click the Fonts icon in the left pane of the Preferences dialog box.

2 Expand the encoding that you want to use.

3 For each option, choose a font and size from the Font and Size pop-up menus.

To preview your selection, click the Font Sample triangle (Mac OS).

4 Click OK, and restart Adobe GoLive.

Note: Only installed double-byte fonts appear in the Font menu. See your operating system documentation for information on installing fonts.

To create double-byte language pages:

1 If you are creating text in a non-Western language, make sure that you have installed the appropriate double-byte script system software and fonts.

2 Open a new document window.

3 Choose File > Document Encoding, and choose the appropriate language encoding option.

Be sure that it is equivalent to the internal operating system encoding--for example, Japanese (Shift JIS)--to add that meta information to the header section.

4 Proceed to design your page in Adobe GoLive.

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