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Utilities: Administration: Server: Internationalization and Localization: International Character Sets

 

How Do Character Sets Work?

 

The Internationalization feature allows you to create content and send mailings in languages that require characters that are not part of the standard ASCII character set.

 

Before you enter any content into the web interface you must select the character set that you want to use for this content. If the character set you want to use does not exist, your server administrator can create it here (see below).

 

NOTE You can also import HTML into your content that has a meta tag which sets the character set. That character set will be selected in the Internationalization tab of the Create Content page and used for the content.

 

Example:

 

<meta content="text/html; charset=iso-2022-jp" http-equiv="Content-Type" />

 

To use international character sets, this feature must be enabled by a server administrator. For more information on this, see Utilities: Administration: Server: Server Settings: Advanced: Enable Features. If this feature is disabled, ListManager defaults to the ISO-8859-1 character set and quoted-printable.

Creating a New Charset

 

If the character set you are looking for is not available in ListManager, you can create a new one by clicking the create new charset button.

 

ID

The ID number is automatically created for you, in sequential order. It then becomes available to you when you create new content or a new mailing.

 

Name

Enter a Name for the new character set; it must be the same as what the standard for that charset specifies.

 

Description

The Description field is purely informational and is only there to aid in referencing this particular character set when looking for the correct character set in the list.

 

Path to image translations

Enter the folder name located in ListManager\tclweb\htdocs\img containing the desired language buttons. The folders deutsch, english, french, and spanish are included by default.

 

CharSet

Click the drop-down list and then select the installed character set that ListManager will use in the web interface.

 

See Content: New Content: Internationalization and Mailings: New Mailing: Internationalization for more information.

 

The Name and Description should contain only standard ASCII characters since these fields are displayed in parts of the web interface that may not be displayed in the same character set.

 

More

 

1. Utilities: Administration: Server: Internationalization and Localization: International Charsets

2. Utilities: Administration: Server: Internationalization and Localization: Translations

1. Utilities: Administration: Server: Internationalization and Localization: Translations: Keys

2. Utilities: Administration: Server: Internationalization and Localization: Translations: Create and Edit Languages

3. Utilities: Administration: Server: Internationalization and Localization: Translations: Translation Values