{"id":6952,"date":"2024-04-14T16:24:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webflow.tenten.co\/?p=6952"},"modified":"2024-04-14T16:24:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:24:39","slug":"choose-your-websites-language-encoding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webflow.tenten.co\/en\/choose-your-websites-language-encoding\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose your website\u2019s language encoding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"docs_rich-text w-richtext\">\n<p>Selecting your website\u2019s language encoding (also known as an \u201cISO encoding\u201d) enables you to specify the natural (human) language of your website so that browsers, translation tools, and accessibility tools like screen readers can utilize this information for language-specific operations. These operations encompass applying appropriate typefaces, identifying accents in text-to-speech tools, conducting spell checks, translating web pages, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Within this tutorial, you will understand:<\/p>\n<ol role=\"list\">\n<li>How to indicate your website\u2019s language encoding<\/li>\n<li>How to define language encodings for region-specific websites<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Indicating your website\u2019s language encoding<\/h2>\n<p>You have the liberty to utilize any <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes\">approved 2-character language encoding<\/a> with Webflow.<\/p>\n<p>Follow these steps to specify your website\u2019s 2-character language encoding:<\/p>\n<ol role=\"list\">\n<li>Visit <strong>Site settings<\/strong> &gt; <strong>General<\/strong> tab &gt; <strong>Localization<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Enter your 2-character code under <strong>Language encoding<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Press <strong>Save modifications<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Deploy your website<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Note:<\/strong> The <strong>language encoding<\/strong> section in Site settings supersedes any region-specific language encodings. In case you have activated multiple regions on your website, ensure that the language encoding section in <strong>Site settings<\/strong> remains blank.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Defining language encodings for region-specific websites<\/h2>\n<p>Webflow Localization automatically configures your website\u2019s language encoding based on each region. If you have activated Localization on your website and previously specified a site language encoding, you must eliminate the language encoding from Site settings:<\/p>\n<ol role=\"list\">\n<li>Head to <strong>Site settings<\/strong> &gt; <strong>General<\/strong> tab &gt; <strong>Localization<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Remove the language encoding from <strong>Language encoding<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Save modifications<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Deploy your website<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Explore additional information regarding language encodings in Webflow Localization.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Set your site\u2019s 2-letter language code.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-site-settings","8":"cs-entry"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webflow.tenten.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webflow.tenten.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webflow.tenten.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webflow.tenten.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webflow.tenten.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webflow.tenten.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webflow.tenten.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webflow.tenten.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webflow.tenten.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webflow.tenten.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}