It provides national language support and enables users to display your HTML files that contain characters not included in the ISO Latin 1 encoding. You can specify the character set in your HTML file to ensure that all browsers attempt to use the necessary encoding. Transcoding support for the HTML Formatters is offered only with Version 1.1 and higher. Character transcoding takes data that exists in one encoding and makes that data available in another encoding. You can think of this process as moving data from its native state to its displayable state.
All Web browsers have a default setting for document encoding.
Users can change this setting to any encoding supported by their browser. To make transcoding work for you, determine the native state of your data and the desired displayable state for your output. Then find or create a transcoding list for the two encodings. The transcoding list acts as a translate table between two encodings. If the NCR value is less than or equal to 127, the formatters put the actual character in the HTML file.