HTML - Arabic Support

Question

i have a website in which i have to put some lines in Arabic.... how to do it...

where to get the Arabic text characters... how to make the page support Arabic...

Answer 1

The W3C has a good introduction.

In short:

HTML is a text markup language. Text means any characters, not just ones in ASCII.

1. Save your text using a character encoding that includes the characters you want (UTF-8 is a good bet). This will probably require configuring your editor in a way that is specific to the particular editor you are using. (Obviously it also requires that you have a way to input the characters you want)
2. Make sure your server sends the correct character encoding in the headers (how you do this depends on the server software you us)
3. If the document you serve over HTTP specifies its encoding internally, then make sure that is correct too
4. If anything happens to the document between you saving it and it being served up (e.g. being put in a database, being munged by a server side script, etc) then make sure that the encoding isn't mucked about with on the way.

You can also represent any unicode character with ASCII