Limba Română

HTML

Romanian special characters:[ăĂ,âÂ,îÎ,şŞ,ţŢ] or (if your browser can't deal with ISO-8859-2 charset). See ISO's list of standards concerning character sets.

ISO-8859-2
0. If you can't see the ISO-8859-2 charset correctly, you could upgrade your browser to either Internet Explorer 4.x/5.x or Netscape 4.x.
1. Add this "meta" tag right after your oppening "html" tag in order to tell the viewer/browser to use the proper charset:

2. ş does not have a cedilla underneath but a comma.
3. The first three characters are vowels.
4. Examples of texts using the proper Romanian characters:

M. Eminescu -- La Steaua
M. Eminescu -- Din valurile vremii
Şt. O. Iosif -- Secerişul
? -- Ziua de ieri
Unknown -- Poezioară vulgară ;-)

Unicode/ISO-10646
If you want to use the UNICODE charset, be aware that for Netscape (Communicator 4.05) you need to have View->Encoding to UTF-8 or Central european.

1. First you need to tell the browser to use unicode. You do that by adding the meta line of code after the openning html tag:

2. In your HTML code you would use "&#NNN", where NNN is the number in the top row.
For reference the special chars were retrieved from these UNICODE charts:

Latin-1 Supplement (U+0080..U+00FF)
Latin Extended-A (U+0100..U+017F)

Romanian Keyboard Control in Windows

`Control Panel->Keyboard->`	`Language (95/98)`	`->Add...->Romanian->OK`
	`Input Locales (NT)`

If you also check the Enable indicator on taskbar box on the same Input Locales property page, you'll be able to easily switch between RO and EN by left-click on symbol on the taskbar and choosing the desired keyboard mapping. Or you could use the "Switch Languages" keyboard shortcuts of Left Alt+Shift or Ctrl+Shift on the same setting property page.
This setting gives me the capability to use those pesky Romanian characters in your favorite word processor (i.e. MS-Word, Lotus WordPro) with simple keystrokes on my std 101-AT US keyboard:

Pronounciation guide - as close as I can describe it in plain English

The pronunciation of ă is similar to the final vowel in the word "mother".
â and î are pronounced the same. It's similar to the Russian . Also, î is used only if the first letter in a word, and â only if it's not the first letter in a word. Here is a lame sound clip of me saying "Câmpina cânt" (it sounds like KHM-PE-NAH KHNT).
The last 2 special characters(ş and ţ) displayed are pronounced as "sh" and "ts" in English.

marinel3@yahoo.com | Last Modified: April 5, 2000