Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies

Errata

This page includes comments I've received about the book as well as a number of mistakes that slipped through.

• Throughout: I made the point in the book that you should avoid defining a font face within your HTML code because you can't always be sure what fonts your users around the world have installed on their computers. But then I went ahead and used <font face> on several of my sample Web pages. Please disregard this mistake. If you want to create a consistent look across locales, you'll likely need to use style sheets, a topic I will address in more detail. (I plan to write an article on this topic to post on this site in the months ahead).
• Hands-On Chapters: I use the French word "recherché" for "search," which is not correct. It should be "recherche" (no accent).
• Page 17: "Spanish is the official language of more than 20 countries; English is the official language of only 7 countries."
  Clearly, I got my math wrong and several readers caught this mistake, some even sending detailed lists of all English-speaking countries (as many as 65). Nevertheless, the point I was trying to make remains the same, that the majority of the world's population do not speak English.
• Pages 39 and 41. The character set exhibits on these two pages are mistaken. For an accurate view of Codepage 1252, please see page 251.
• Page 177: "in other countries a postal code can be anywhere from 3 to 7 digits..." The 7 should be 10.
• Page 411: "the euro (abbreviated EMU for European Monetary Unit)" is not correct. EMU officially stands Economic and Monetary Union," which was the name of the project that resulted in the euro.