Internet Explorer not changing charset

Hello all,

I am trying to build a multilingual site where the user is able to change the language by clicking, e.g. a Portuguese link.

The language changing feature is working perfectly in Firefox, but not for many pages in Internet Explorer. I think I have setup my <meta> tags correctly.

Is this a bug in Internet Explorer? How do people cope with this in reality?

I put a meta like below on the top of each page where I want a different language. Is this the end of the story?

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=big5">

(for Chinese)
(or windows-1252 for English and Portuguese)

I'm stuck with this for a long time now. Would really appreaciate if someone can give me a hand on it.

Thanks a lot!

Stanton

I think you are going to need to go server side on this one passing a different content type/ header. Im not entirely sure how to do this but if do a search for changing content type dynamically you might find some results.

Also, this generalized query might be of help: google:i18n+internationalization (http://www.google.com/search?q=i18n+internationalization)

The term "i18n" is shorthand. The "18" stands for the number of letters between the "i" and the last "n" in "internationalization."

Problem solved for user browsing experience.


Do this for Internet Explorer:

header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=big5");



Still cannot get the charset working for an email sent to the user though.