I am currently building a website with the Romanian language. Does anyone know where I can get the character codes for that language?

Thanks.

Do a google search for 'html romanian characters' and you'll get lots of sites.

I have a very newbie-level question:

I am just starting to learn a little Japanese, mostly to test my language skills and try to learn something entirely outside my experience.

What are the best methods to include Japanese or other non-Latin writing systems on web pages, with or without other blocks of English / Latin-alphabet text?

Ideally, I'd like to be able to copy and paste in (or type directly) in the Japanese kanji, hiragana, and katakana, rather than a huge number of numeric character entities, which seems like a good way to lose your sanity and cool in a big hurry! The same would apply for Cyrillic and Cherokee and other foreign languages / writing systems, or, for that matter, probably many European accented characters.

Naturally, I'll be using my limited powers of google-fu to hunt for answers too.

I have the feeling I'll also need to set the lang="jp" and lang="en-us" attributes, per block or per page. I also get the feeling I'm about to discover just how complex it can get, working in multiple languages.

I'm primarily looking at this for learning and personal enrichment for now, but I'd expect it will land on web pages at some point soon.

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_charactersets.asp

Thanks, Tomalicious. I checked the charset and lang entries at W3Schools. I knew to do those already. (But somehow, I'd gotten lang="jp" (incorrect) instead of lang="ja" (correct).)

My experience has been that different programs may open/save or import/export files, or copy/paste text such that, even if you have perfectly good text in the character set and language writing system of your choice, a browser, word processor or text editor, office-like suite program, a graphics program, page layout program, or web page editor may convert the characters into something unusable (transforming it to a question mark or unknown symbol (like that diamond-question-mark) or some other oddity, or they may change it to bytes/characters in the wrong character set. And that presents a stumbling block to me as an end user or as a web designer. If the tools I use to get text into and out of the needed format can't do the conversion on either end, you get either junk (don't change the text into different characters altogether) or a good attempt but the wrong interpretation. It's frustrating.

So, I was really asking if there's a best method to get text from a word processor or text editor, or from a browser's display or source page, into a plain old web page (in UTF-8, preferably) without the browser or other program handing off "bad characters" (undesired/incorrect input) to the web page editor or suite (office or graphics), and without the destination program transforming the input into bad output once pasted or imported or opened.

Ideally, I'd want to place text in its native form (English or French or Japanese kanji, hiragana, or katakana, or Greek or Cyrillic, or Cherokee, for instance, whatever language or writing system is needed) and view that properly both in source view and when previewed in a browser.

It looks like I'll need to keep experimenting...and write out a table of which programs play nice together and which don't.