Can i make a web site in Urdu Language....?

[ary_grw9]

Hi, Friends! i m new comer of this site..i m from Pakistan and i want to make a website of my newspaper in Urdu using Micromedia Dreamweaver can any1 like to tell me how can i make a website in Urdu Language....actually there is a way to make this, that is making my data in JPEG or GIF but i want to make as text like english text ...plz help me if any1 have a solution....?

[Wickham]

Yes, see this thread
http://www.webdevforums.com/showthread.php?t=17776
and this website
http://forum.persia-cms.com/www-url-vt55.html
I know it's not Urdu, it's persian farsi script, but you can see from the source code that the code is in English but the general text is in Persian.
You need to set the language in the meta tag to Urdu (he had <meta name="description" lang="fa"....... you need the code for Urdu UR
http://xml.coverpages.org/iso639a.html ).

An alternative is to have the webpage set up for English but to use special character codes for each Urdu character, see
http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/urdu-alphabet.html
but this is much more time consuming.