Currently, the Documentation Library Service supports searching HTML documents that are written using the languages and codesets listed in the Language Support Table. All documents in a single index must be written using the same language and codeset. Note that even though a document is written in a supported language, it cannot be searched unless it is written using the codeset of characters listed in the table. The last column in the table shows the characters that must be used as the last two characters of the index name for an index that contains that language. For example, if you are going to create an index named doc456 and it is written in Spanish in the 8859-1 codeset, you would name it doc456es.
For more information on codesets and locales see Locale Overview in AIX Version 4.3 System Management Guide: Operating System and Devices.
The Portable ASCII codeset of characters is included inside all other codesets. So you can include Portable ASCII characters in documents in all languages.
If you are creating a document in a codeset other than ISO8859-1, the Netscape browser may have a problem with displaying ampersand encoded characters that are equivalent to characters outside the Portable ASCII characters. These characters will not display correctly. For example, if you are using © for the copyright symbol, this is equal to a character value that is not in the Portable ASCII codeset. It may not display properly in any non-ISO8859-1 codeset.
HTML documents must be customized for use with the Documentation Library Service by including "Search" links in each document that will call the search form. These search links can be placed anywhere in the document. For example, they can be in the body of the text, in a header at the top of each page, in a navigation frame - anywhere where users are able to view them. See the next section for information on how the search link must be written.
Users may be using an ASCII browser to view the documentation. If it is likely that end users will be using an ASCII browser, the HTML documentation should be ASCII user-friendly. This includes techniques such as using an ALT attribute in the <IMG> tag for users unable to view images and <NOFRAMES> tags for users with browsers that are not frames capable. Consult HTML reference material for other techniques.
Insert a title tag in each document. Document titles should be meaningful and unique. The document title will appear in the list of matched documents in the search results page as the title of the found document. The text between the <TITLE> and </TITLE> tags should contain the title of the document and no other HTML tags. Additionally, titles should have a maximum length of 256 bytes.