Setting language scripts and font preferences

The Encodings and Fonts preferences settings let you select the default language script, activate language scripts so they appear in the Document Encoding submenu, and set default fonts for languages.

Note: Language scripts that are not activated and supported by the system software don't appear in the File > Document Encoding submenu.

To activate encodings for language scripts:

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 GoLive to initialize it.
2. Click the Encodings icon in the left pane of the Preferences dialog box.
3. In the right pane of the dialog box, select the desired language encoding option to activate it.
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 element. When this option is selected, GoLive tries to recognize the encoding based on the characters used. Deselect this option to eliminate language information from the HTML page head section.
6. In the Scanning Limit Characters text box, enter the number of bytes that you want 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 a language script:

1. Click the Fonts icon in the left pane of the Preferences dialog box.
2. Click the triangle to expand the language script options.
3. For each option, choose a font and size from the Font and Size pop-up menus.
4. To preview your selection, click the Font Sample triangle (Mac OS).
5. Click OK, and restart 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 head section.

4. Proceed to add text to your page in GoLive.