Microsoft KB Archive/169510

= FP: How to Set Up a Multilingual Web in FrontPage =

Article ID: 169510

Article Last Modified on 10/4/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft FrontPage 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q169510



For a Microsoft FrontPage 98 version of this article, see 194087.



SUMMARY
This article describes how to set up a multilingual Web so that visitors to your Web can view your content in their choice of language, such as English, Spanish, or German.



MORE INFORMATION
To set up a multilingual web in FrontPage Explorer, follow these steps:

 Set up the default home page in the . Create a subweb for each language you want. Set the default language property and HTML encoding for each subweb. To do this, follow these steps:

 On the Tools menu, click Web Settings. Click the Language tab. From the Default Web Language list, select the language you want to use.</li> From the Default HTML Encoding list, select the type of HTML encoding you want. Click Apply.</li> Click OK.</li></ol>

If your FrontPage web is hosted on a supported UNIX web server, you are done. If not, go to step 4.</li> On the FrontPage compact disc, open the \frontpg\misc folder. There are five *.msg files in this folder--one for each language. Copy the *.msg file you want to use to the \version2.0\bin folder on the hard disk.</li></ol>

For more information about subwebs, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

148414 FP: How to Add Subwebs and Create Links to Subwebs

Additional query words: 97 bilingual german japanese italian french language

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