Stylize text to use different fonts for different languages?

Question

Is there a way to stylize text on an HTML page such that it automatically uses a different font for different languages? My website uses both English and Arabic. I\'d like t

Answer 1

If you are using UTF-8 encoding, the contents should come out in the correct character encoding, but will still be using the same font.

You'd need to assign a CSS class to the elements containing the Arabic. CSS cannot detect this by itself.

You could do this using JavaScript to perform this task at load-time be inspecting elements and determining the character range used.