Which "Content-Language" and "charset" settings ?

[Koros]

Hello,
which settings should I set on these code, for an English / American site ?

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="?r">

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

Thanks in advance,
Koros

[John Colby]

I use:

lang and xml:lang set to "en" and charset to "utf-8"

Other charsets will work.

[Koros]

Problem is that my site may contains some foreign character and sign like " ' " directly past in the html code instead of being converted to code... and in those case it causes some problems.

Isn't there a charset that will allow the widest characters possible ?
Would charset=windows-1252 be a good choice ?

Cordially,
Koros

[John Colby]

Problem is that my site may contains some foreign character and sign like " ' " directly past in the html code instead of being converted to code... and in those case it causes some problems.

Then you should use the character entity - a pretty full list is available at http://www.alanwood.net/demos/ent4_frame.html

For the character you mention, the prime, (it is not a quotation mark - a frequent cause for confusion) the entity code is

&#8242 ;  or ′

but leave out the space before the first semi-colon - this forum software converts it to the character when it is a numeric entry, but not when it is expressed in words.

[redux]

I use:
lang and xml:lang set to "en"

or even "en-us" if it's specifically american...