Limba Română

HTML

Romanian special characters:[ăĂ,âÂ,îÎ,şŞ,ţŢ] or (if your browser can't deal with ISO-8859-2 charset).

Unicode (ro)
ISO-10646
If you want to use the Unicode (UTF-8) charset, be aware that for older browsers you might have to set 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 opening html tag:

2. In your HTML code you would use "&#NNN", where NNN is the number in the middle row in the above table.
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) (Turkish "sh")
Latin Extended-B (U+0180..U+024F) (Romanian "sh", apparently not supported by MSIE5.5 yet, but Mozilla 0.8 and Netscape 6.x do support them!)
3. Text example using UTF-8 Romanian characters:

Tudor Arghezi -- O zi
4. Perl script to convert Romanian texts from ISO-8859-2 to UTF-8: roconvert.pl

ISO-8859-2
0. If you can't see the ISO-8859-2 charset correctly, you could upgrade your browser to either the latest Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, or Mozilla. Lynx 2.8x (although not supporting Javascript) seems to do at least a decent job at approximating those non-ASCII characters...
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 (ISO-8859-2 has the Turkish version of "sh"). See Unicode for the correct glyphs.
3. Text examples using ISO-8859-2 Romanian characters:

M. Eminescu -- La Steaua
M. Eminescu -- Din valurile vremii
Şt. O. Iosif -- Secerişul
Tudor Arghezi -- O zi

Romanian Keyboard Control in Windows

`Control Panel->Keyboard`	`->Language (95/98)`	`->Add...->Romanian->OK`
	`->Input Locales (NT/XP/2000)`

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.
This setting allows the following mapping of Romanian characters on a standard QWERTY 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.