Two encodings in one HTML document

Question

My problem is this:

I copy the HTML set from the computer to another, and I add more information to the target HTML as an element. The problem is that the source documents are encoded in many different encodings [UTF8, 8859-1, GB1232, etc.], and the meta-information is stored as UTF-8, so when I "fictitiously" merge my meta information with the original document , my meta information [which contains international characters] looks strange.

So, is there a way to use the HTML encoding defined in <META> and in tags! DOCTYPE in the entire HTML document, except in the TABLE or in the DIV section, which will use a different encoding specified there?

thanks in advance,

Ernesto

Answer 1

No no.

I suggest you use DOM parsers to read various bits of HTML in memory, and then build a merged document in UTF-8. After these HTML fragments are in memory (after parsing), they will be displayed as Unicode (depending on the programming language), and therefore information should not be lost along this path.

Answer 2

No, you need to use a character encoding, which is the union of the encodings that are used. Therefore, in your case, I suggest you use UTF-8 for all of your documents. Or you use symbolic links instead of the simplest symbol if they cannot be encoded using the encoding used in the document.