How Can I Change The Charset To Apart Of The Page

[medicalboy]

i have apge with acharset

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

but the problem is that it doesn't support my language arabicand when i write aword in arabic ,it appears as ???????i want to solve this problemi know i can change it to windows-1256 and will work good,but the problem , if i change it to the whole pageit will disturb the layout and fonts, as it's ajoomla templateiwant to know amethod to change charset for apart of page?

Edited November 28, 2009 by medicalboy

[Synook]

You can't, except by using e.g. an iFrame. Headers apply to the entire body.

[medicalboy]

You can't, except by using e.g. an iFrame. Headers apply to the entire body.

i find aphp functionhttp://php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.phpi'll try it , and i don't know if this go well or not

[Synook]

That functions changes the character set of a string on the backend, but if the page's charset doesn't support the character then it still won't work.