Are Japanese Fonts Compatible with Dreamweaver CS3?
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 allows you to design or edit a website with HTML, CSS and JavaScript codes. If you purchase the software in an English-speaking country, the default language for the software is English. However, if you are aiming to create an international website or you otherwise need to feature Japanese fonts on your website, you need to know about setting fonts in the program.
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Double-Byte Fonts
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Japanese fonts, like those for Chinese and Korean, are supported by operating systems that allow double-byte fonts. Before you can use Japanese fonts with Dreamweaver CS3 software, you have to first make sure your operating system is capable of supporting double-byte fonts. Check to see if you have an all-language version of your operating system; this will indicate double-byte capability. If not, you may still be able to download Japanese fonts, which will enable double-byte capability.
Installing Japanese Fonts
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Before you can use Japanese with Dreamweaver CS3, you have to have Japanese fonts installed on your computer. Enter the Language section of the operating system and enable Japanese fonts. If you do not already have an all-language operating system such as Windows 7 or Mac OS X Lion, download Japanese fonts or the Asian font packs from your operating system's primary website. Be sure to specifically get Japanese. Chinese and Japanese are not interchangeable; although they share many of the same characters, Japanese has two additional alphabets that Chinese does not have.
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Enabling the Font
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Once you know your computer will display Japanese, enable the font in Dreamweaver whenever you want to type in Japanese. On the Mac you'll find the category Fonts in Dreamweaver's Preferences menu; on Windows, it will be under Preferences in the Edit menu. Under Font Settings select Japanese on the encoding list. Return to the program, type in Japanese and return to the font preferences whenever you need to switch back to Roman letters.
Copy and Paste
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Sometimes when you attempt to copy Japanese fonts from other websites or from documents and then paste them into your website's coding via Dreamweaver CS3, the Japanese font will fail to appear and will be replaced by question marks. Try using HTML coding and entering the tag <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> at the top. If that does not work, start with a new Dreamweaver document and change the coding of the page to UTF-8 before you paste the Japanese font.
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