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Maltese Cross Writing Maltese on the Web

Posted by Daniel Stout on Fri 27 Jan 2006 at 1:26 PM

MaltaHere is a brief How-To for writing Maltese, the native language of Malta, on the Web.

I had been searching for a synopsis of writing the Maltese language via a web page but in my search didn’t find what I was looking for, so I am sharing with you what I learned. This is intended for people who either don’t have access to a Maltese language keyboard or wish to encode the web pages with Unicode characters for greatest portability.

First are the character encoding used to render the letters of the Maltese alphabet. Most of the characters can be entered with an English language keyboard. But on a web page or a blog, for example, these escape characters can be used:

CharacterHTML (Decimal)
ĊĊ
ċċ
ĠĠ
ġġ
ĦĦ
ħħ
ŻŻ
żż

You can use those values in the right column instead of the characters, and when displayed on the web they will display as the characters of the Maltese alphabet as seen in the left column.

Another thing to keep in mind is the encoding of the web page. The page needs to be encoded with the Unicode encoding called UTF-8. This can be set in your blogging software, or look in the <head> section of your web page for something like the following:

<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8” />

Also common web fonts are the way to go. Modern versions of Times New Roman, Georgia, Arial, etc. all contain the characters for the Maltese language.

You may want to take a look at this entry on the Maltese Alphabet for the complete alphabet.

Update: In the above chart, I switched from using the HTML hex values to the decimal values. The decimal values are shorter and perhaps easier to remember as well as having better web browser support than the hex values.

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