Multi Charset Page

[Typhoon101]

Hi. I am building a page that must contain English, Chinese, Japanese and Taiwanese text. My problem is with the page's charset. If i use charset=iso-8859-1, the English text is fine, but the asian text shows incorrect characters. If i use Big5, the Chinese is fine, but all others are incorrect. (actually, the only problem with the English text is the font, but the other Asian characters are wrong). It seems no matter what character set i use, the rest of the text is messed up.

Can i use charset=iso-8859-1 for the entire page, but change the character set for individual blocks of text?

[Fang]

Use utf-8 and make sure the font-family supports unicode.

[Typhoon101]

Thanks, that worked great. I don't know about utf-8. Is this a generic character set that can be used all the time to replace individual sets? I have tried looking it up, but it is a bit too technical for me to understand properly.

[Fang]

utf-8, in combination with a supporting font-family, allows you to use most unicode characters. THere is a utf-16 for more characters, but the linitation is the font-family supporting all characters.
Always check that your required characters are supported. It depends on charset, font-family, browser and OS.
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/