How to define char-set meta for multi-language encoding

[Seyfullah Ural]

I would like to prepare a multilanguage HTML page. How should I setup the
char-set meta so that in IE the characters will appear correctly.

Seyfullah Ural

 

[Steve Easton]

Set the character set for the "main" language and then place the other languages
in span tags with the language defined in the span.

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[Andreas Prilop]

I would like to prepare a multilanguage HTML page.

How should I setup the
char-set meta so that in IE the characters will appear correctly.

You should set up your server correctly so that it sends an HTTP
header with complete encoding (charset) information:
<http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTTP-charset.html>
<http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/ns-burp.html>

BTW, here's a test page for you:
<http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/multilingual1.html>

 

[Andreas Prilop]

Set the character set for the "main" language and then place the other languages
in span tags with the language defined in the span.

The language attribute (lang) has nothing to do with the encoding
(charset) and doesn't help here.