- From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 14:49:53 +0900 (JST)
- To: James@virtual-aviation.fsnet.co.uk
- Cc: www-html-editor@w3.org
"James London" <James@virtual-aviation.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: > How can I display an HTML Page with text in more than a single CharSet?? Basically you can't. I assume you are talking about multiple *character encodings* in a single document - HTML's document *character set* is always the Universal Character Set (UCS). > I am aware that setting the character set for the entire page can be done using > the META Tags, is there a way to do this at Tag level?? - i.e. apply a different > Charset to an area of Text? I don't quite understand why you need that. > Imagine a page divided into two paragraphs of text, at the top would be one > paragraph of text using Japanese "x-sjis" "x-sjis" should not be used. What is registered in the IANA character sets registry [1] is "Shift_JIS", although there are several variants of so-called Shift-JIS in practice. You might want to have a look at "5.3 Shift-JIS" of "XML Japanese Profile" [2]. > and another just underneath in > Character set "iso-8859-9"??. You don't have to use different character encodings to mix them. Instead you should choose an appropriate character encoding that covers sufficient repertoire of characters, such as UTF-8. Alternatively you may represent some characters that cannot be directly encoded in a given character encoding by numeric character references or character entity references (if appropriate entities are defined). See "5 HTML Document Representation" of the HTML 4 specification [3] for details. > I have found references to the charset attribute in the DIV and SPAN tags > in various HTML reference manuals, however they do not display correctly. No HTML Recommendation defined the charset attribute on 'div' and 'span'. > I have also seen CHARSET referred to as LANG. Those are completely different notion. See "8.1 Specifying the language of content: the lang attribute" of HTML 4 [4] for details about the lang attribute. [1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-japanese-xml-20000414/#sjis [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.1 Regards, -- Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
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