diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 212de44..bff4e69 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 /target
-.DS_Store
\ No newline at end of file
+.DS_Store
+example.html
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b7cb0a3..0c5c498 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ version = 3
 
 [[package]]
 name = "auto_encoder"
-version = "0.1.5"
+version = "0.1.6"
 dependencies = [
  "chardetng",
  "encoding_rs",
@@ -157,9 +157,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "proc-macro2"
-version = "1.0.88"
+version = "1.0.89"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7c3a7fc5db1e57d5a779a352c8cdb57b29aa4c40cc69c3a68a7fedc815fbf2f9"
+checksum = "f139b0662de085916d1fb67d2b4169d1addddda1919e696f3252b740b629986e"
 dependencies = [
  "unicode-ident",
 ]
@@ -196,9 +196,9 @@ checksum = "38b58827f4464d87d377d175e90bf58eb00fd8716ff0a62f80356b5e61555d0d"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "syn"
-version = "2.0.82"
+version = "2.0.83"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "83540f837a8afc019423a8edb95b52a8effe46957ee402287f4292fae35be021"
+checksum = "01680f5d178a369f817f43f3d399650272873a8e7588a7872f7e90edc71d60a3"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0379bcc..f9fea61 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "auto_encoder"
-version = "0.1.5"
+version = "0.1.6"
 edition = "2021"
 description = "Auto encoding library"
 repository = "https://github.com/spider-rs/auto-encoder"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index dc2f559..0d9f20d 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static ENCODINGS_BY_LOCALE: phf::Map<&'static str, &'static encoding_rs::Encodin
     "en-gb" => encoding_rs::WINDOWS_1252, // English (United Kingdom)
     "en-ie" => encoding_rs::WINDOWS_1252, // English (Ireland)
     "en-nz" => encoding_rs::WINDOWS_1252, // English (New Zealand)
-    "en-us" => encoding_rs::WINDOWS_1252, // English (United States)
+    "en-us" => encoding_rs::UTF_8,        // English (United States)
     "es-ar" => encoding_rs::WINDOWS_1252, // Spanish (Argentina)
     "es-bo" => encoding_rs::WINDOWS_1252, // Spanish (Bolivia)
     "es-cl" => encoding_rs::WINDOWS_1252, // Spanish (Chile)
@@ -206,6 +206,14 @@ static ENCODINGS_BY_LOCALE: phf::Map<&'static str, &'static encoding_rs::Encodin
     "zh-tw" => encoding_rs::BIG5,         // Chinese (Taiwan)
 };
 
+/// Handle the html encoding found.
+pub struct HtmlMetadata {
+    /// The HTML lang attribute.
+    pub lang: Option<String>,
+    /// The html meta encoding.
+    pub encoding: Option<String>,
+}
+
 /// Get encoding for the locale if found
 pub fn encoding_for_locale(locale: &str) -> Option<&'static encoding_rs::Encoding> {
     ENCODINGS_BY_LOCALE
@@ -233,30 +241,188 @@ pub fn is_binary_file(content: &[u8]) -> bool {
 
 /// Detect the language of a HTML resource. This does nothing without the "encoding" flag enabled.
 pub fn detect_language(html_content: &[u8]) -> Option<String> {
+    if !html_content.is_empty() {
+        let search_area_limit = html_content.len().min(1024);
+        let search_area = &html_content[..search_area_limit];
+        if let Some(html_start) = find_subsequence(search_area, b"<html") {
+            let rest = &search_area[html_start..];
+
+            if let Some(lang_start) = find_subsequence(rest, b"lang=") {
+                let after_lang = &rest[lang_start + 5..];
+                let quote = *after_lang.get(0)?;
+
+                if quote == b'"' || quote == b'\'' {
+                    if let Some(quote_close) = find_subsequence(&after_lang[1..], &[quote]) {
+                        return Some(
+                            String::from_utf8(after_lang[1..quote_close + 1].to_vec()).ok()?,
+                        );
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    let end = after_lang
+                        .iter()
+                        .position(|&c| c.is_ascii_whitespace() || c == b'>')?;
+                    return Some(String::from_utf8(after_lang[..end].to_vec()).ok()?);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    None
+}
+
+/// Detect the encoding used in an HTML file.
+pub fn detect_encoding(html_content: &[u8]) -> Option<String> {
+    // Limit the search area for efficiency
     let search_area_limit = html_content.len().min(1024);
     let search_area = &html_content[..search_area_limit];
 
-    if let Some(html_start) = find_subsequence(search_area, b"<html") {
-        let rest = &search_area[html_start..];
+    let mut pos = 0;
+
+    while pos < search_area.len() {
+        if let Some(meta_start) = find_subsequence(&search_area[pos..], b"<meta") {
+            pos += meta_start;
+            let meta_content = &search_area[pos..];
+            pos += meta_content.len();
+
+            // Case 1: <meta charset="...">
+            if let Some(charset_start) = find_subsequence(meta_content, b"charset=") {
+                let after_charset = &meta_content[charset_start + 8..];
+                if let Some((quote, remaining)) = after_charset.split_first() {
+                    if *quote == b'"' || *quote == b'\'' {
+                        if let Some(quote_close) = find_subsequence(&remaining, &[*quote]) {
+                            let charset_bytes = &remaining[..quote_close];
+                            if let Ok(charset) = String::from_utf8(charset_bytes.to_vec()) {
+                                return Some(charset);
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
 
-        if let Some(lang_start) = find_subsequence(rest, b"lang=") {
-            let after_lang = &rest[lang_start + 5..];
-            let quote = *after_lang.get(0)?;
+            // Case 2: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="...; charset=...">
+            if let Some(http_equiv_start) =
+                find_subsequence(meta_content, b"http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"")
+            {
+                let content_start_idx = http_equiv_start + b"http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"".len();
+                if let Some(content_start) =
+                    find_subsequence(&meta_content[content_start_idx..], b"content=")
+                {
+                    let after_content = &meta_content[content_start_idx + content_start + 8..];
+                    if let Some((quote, remaining)) = after_content.split_first() {
+                        if *quote == b'"' || *quote == b'\'' {
+                            let content_end = find_subsequence(&remaining, &[*quote])?;
+                            let full_content = &remaining[..content_end];
+                            if let Some(charset_pos) = find_subsequence(full_content, b"charset=") {
+                                let after_charset = &full_content[charset_pos + 8..];
+                                let charset_end = after_charset
+                                    .iter()
+                                    .position(|&c| c == b';' || c.is_ascii_whitespace())
+                                    .unwrap_or(after_charset.len());
+                                if let Ok(charset) =
+                                    String::from_utf8(after_charset[..charset_end].to_vec())
+                                {
+                                    return Some(charset);
+                                }
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        } else {
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+
+    None
+}
 
-            if quote == b'"' || quote == b'\'' {
-                if let Some(quote_close) = find_subsequence(&after_lang[1..], &[quote]) {
-                    return Some(String::from_utf8(after_lang[1..quote_close + 1].to_vec()).ok()?);
+/// Detect the html metadata to process the element based on the encoding or language found.
+pub fn detect_html_metadata(html_content: &[u8]) -> Option<HtmlMetadata> {
+    let mut lang: Option<String> = None;
+    let mut encoding: Option<String> = None;
+
+    if !html_content.is_empty() {
+        let search_area_limit = html_content.len().min(1024);
+        let search_area = &html_content[..search_area_limit];
+
+        // Detect language
+        if let Some(html_start) = find_subsequence(search_area, b"<html") {
+            let rest = &search_area[html_start..];
+            if let Some(lang_start) = find_subsequence(rest, b"lang=") {
+                let after_lang = &rest[lang_start + 5..];
+                let quote = *after_lang.get(0).unwrap_or(&b' ');
+
+                if quote == b'"' || quote == b'\'' {
+                    if let Some(quote_close) = find_subsequence(&after_lang[1..], &[quote]) {
+                        lang =
+                            Some(String::from_utf8(after_lang[1..quote_close + 1].to_vec()).ok()?);
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    let end = after_lang
+                        .iter()
+                        .position(|&c| c.is_ascii_whitespace() || c == b'>')
+                        .unwrap_or(after_lang.len());
+                    lang = Some(String::from_utf8(after_lang[..end].to_vec()).ok()?);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Detect encoding
+        let mut pos = 0;
+        while pos < search_area.len() {
+            if let Some(meta_start) = find_subsequence(&search_area[pos..], b"<meta") {
+                pos += meta_start;
+                let meta_content = &search_area[pos..];
+                pos += meta_content.len();
+
+                if let Some(charset_start) = find_subsequence(meta_content, b"charset=") {
+                    let after_charset = &meta_content[charset_start + 8..];
+                    if let Some((quote, remaining)) = after_charset.split_first() {
+                        if *quote == b'"' || *quote == b'\'' {
+                            if let Some(quote_close) = find_subsequence(&remaining, &[*quote]) {
+                                let charset_bytes = &remaining[..quote_close];
+                                encoding = String::from_utf8(charset_bytes.to_vec()).ok();
+                                break;
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+
+                if let Some(http_equiv_start) =
+                    find_subsequence(meta_content, b"http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"")
+                {
+                    let content_start_idx = http_equiv_start + b"http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"".len();
+                    if let Some(content_start) =
+                        find_subsequence(&meta_content[content_start_idx..], b"content=")
+                    {
+                        let after_content = &meta_content[content_start_idx + content_start + 8..];
+                        if let Some((quote, remaining)) = after_content.split_first() {
+                            if *quote == b'"' || *quote == b'\'' {
+                                let content_end = find_subsequence(&remaining, &[*quote])?;
+                                let full_content = &remaining[..content_end];
+                                if let Some(charset_pos) =
+                                    find_subsequence(full_content, b"charset=")
+                                {
+                                    let after_charset = &full_content[charset_pos + 8..];
+                                    let charset_end = after_charset
+                                        .iter()
+                                        .position(|&c| c == b';' || c.is_ascii_whitespace())
+                                        .unwrap_or(after_charset.len());
+                                    encoding =
+                                        String::from_utf8(after_charset[..charset_end].to_vec())
+                                            .ok();
+                                    break;
+                                }
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
                 }
             } else {
-                let end = after_lang
-                    .iter()
-                    .position(|&c| c.is_ascii_whitespace() || c == b'>')?;
-                return Some(String::from_utf8(after_lang[..end].to_vec()).ok()?);
+                break;
             }
         }
     }
 
-    None
+    Some(HtmlMetadata { lang, encoding })
 }
 
 /// Helper function to find a subsequence in a slice.
@@ -439,7 +605,7 @@ mod tests {
     fn test_encoding_for_locale() {
         assert_eq!(
             encoding_for_locale("en-us"),
-            Some(encoding_rs::WINDOWS_1252)
+            Some(encoding_rs::UTF_8)
         );
         assert_eq!(encoding_for_locale("zh-cn"), Some(encoding_rs::GB18030));
         assert_eq!(encoding_for_locale("ja-jp"), Some(encoding_rs::SHIFT_JIS));
@@ -514,4 +680,21 @@ mod tests {
         let html_content = b"<html><head><title>Test</title></head><body></body></html>";
         assert!(detect_language(html_content).is_none());
     }
+
+    #[ignore]
+    #[test]
+    fn test_detect_encoding() {
+        use maud::{html, DOCTYPE};
+        let markup = html! {
+            (DOCTYPE)
+            meta charset="utf-8";
+        }
+        .into_string();
+        assert!(
+            detect_encoding(&markup.as_bytes())
+                .unwrap_or_default()
+                .to_lowercase()
+                == "utf-8"
+        );
+    }
 }