Question

Is there a way to specify certain part of a html file as another encoding?

The default encoding for the (generated) html is utf-8. However, some of the included data to be inserted in the html is in another encoding. It’s something like:

 <div>
     the normal html in utf-8
 </div>

 <div>
     <%= raw_data_in_another_encoding %>
 </div>

Is there a way to hint a browser to render the 2nd <div> in another encoding? thanks

Answer 1

No, the entire file must have a single encoding. If you’re saving a plain .html file, you’ll have to convert the entire file to one encoding.

If you’re using a server-side scripting language, however, you can always convert text from one encoding to another. You might designate UTF-8 as the encoding for the page, and then when you encounter bits of content currently encoded in, say, latin1, you can simply convert it to UTF-8 before outputting it.

How you do that, of course, would depend on the particular server-side language you’re using.

In PHP, you could do:

echo iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8', $someLatin1Text);