Define multiple languages in html root element's lang attribute?

Question

I want to determine more than one language for a document, because it\'s available in more than one language. If I use:

Answer 1

You can't use it like this.

You'll have to either use an encoding that encompasses all desired chars (e.g UTF-8) which supports the entire Unicode range), or else use named entities or numeric references to include characters outside the encoding in use.

http://bytes.com/topic/html-css/answers/154652-multiple-languages-one-document

UPDATE

If using HTML5 then you can use lang for each element. That means if you have a div that contains Mandarin Chinese in it, just define an attribute lang="zh-CN" for that div, like . ( What is the HTML5 alternative to the obsolete meta http-equiv=content-language. )