Web Pages are authored in HTML, XML or ASP using Notepad, Front Page, Visual Basic or Java scripting or any other Unicode aware authoring tool using Asiasoft™ Support for Windows 2000 and Asiatype™ Web Fonts. Pages are uploaded to the server with Asiatype Multilingual Server Support installed on.

Language data is automatically created on the fly as soon as it is needed in a page. Server Support is configured with alternate bind URL, which can be dynamically changed. The WebPages creates are 10-30% smaller then those created by Asiatype™ Web Support. It supports all Unicode 3.x languages (including Indic languages, each language fonts licensed separately). Server Support also reduces the size of the html pages by 30-300%. Another advantage of using the support is that it provides backward compatibility for CSS level 2 for legacy browsers.

Server Support works well with dynamic pages as well. For example, you may create a JSP or ASP page, which produces plain HTML code. The generated html code would be filtered through Server Support before reaching web browsers, at which point Pages would be dynamically created for the page. You would thus not need to figure which fonts and what subsets to use in advance for a dynamic page, as this is done automatically.

The core architecture of Support is that of a page selection. Server Support maps a request for a page to a local file in a server file cache. This file is based on the original file on the server. As such, all the security checks that are in place to verify that a user is permitted to access a page is done *before* Server Support kicks in. Server Support is thus not able to access any information than what the request in question should be able to access. Also, there are no provisions whatsoever for updating data on the server. Server Support is a strictly read-only software. The only files that are written are the files in the server cache, which may be placed anywhere by the system administrator. Server Support is thus absolutely safe for these reasons.