character sets

menino

I was working on this website, which had default character set of UTF-8.

I changed it to windows-1256 (arabic), but some of the text comes garbled.

Is there a way to have multiple character sets on an HTML page?

k_s_baskar

hi,
sorry no idea about your question. But i think this not related topic for your query.
Smile

AftershockVibe

As far as I know, no there isn't. Why would you need multiple character sets anyway? If you want to do that then why not save the document in a character set which supports both? UTF-8 should do this fine for arabic.

menino

The reason for multiple character sets is because of the need for both arabic and english. But I think on the server that the website and emails are hosted has the default character set as windows-1256, and the encoding from that to utf-8 garbles the translation altogether.

It is sorted out by another company now, and I think they hard coded it, and included 2 character settings.
On my side, I added the character set in the php file that sends the information across by email.

Thanks for your suggestions! Cool

Peterssidan

utf-8 should be able to handle arabic and many other languges so there is no need of multiple incompatible character sets. That's one of the huge benefits with Unicode.

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