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Harlan Messinger
 
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Default Re: Multiple charsets on one page? - 11-24-2007 , 05:36 PM






Puzzled wrote:
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I need to have text in several charsets (e.g. latin, Kyrillic,
Chinese) on the same page at the same time.
That's not quite the way it works. What you *need* is *one* character
set that includes the characters from these *several* character sets.
That one character set is the Unicode character set, and you access it
by setting the character encoding of your page to UTF-8. The page itself
has to be saved as UTF-8, and then the web server, ideally, has to send
a charset=UTF-8 header (the use of the term "charset" here is
unfortunate because the encoding is not always identical to the
character set, UTF-8 being an example of this) and, failing that, you
need to specify UTF-8 in a META tag in your page.


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