Could anyone tell me where there is information regarding character code
'usage' that is simple. I always use UTF-8 and, e.g., if I want to put
a left quote in my text I can use " or “ Which is
recommended?
...
One of the main points of using Unicode is that you don't need to use
entities, other than for a handful of chars used by HTML.
Yes! Using UTF-8 in your web pages means NOT having to use HTML
entities for text such as ñ or ê. The only HTML entities
you need to use in your character data are & for '&' ampersand,
< for '<' less-than, and > for '>' greater-than so that those
characters don't confuse the HTML parser.
To get you started, two basic rules are:
1) Save your HTML/PHP files with UTF-8 character encoding. In many
text editors there's a character encoding option in the Save As dialog.
2) Declare UTF-8 as the character encoding in the HTML header, e.g.:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
(XHTML has different character set declarations than HTML.)
For more details see Richard Ishida's W3C Internationalization pages
at http://www.w3.org/International/
Regards,
Paul
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Paul Novitski
Juniper Webcraft Ltd.
http://juniperwebcraft.com
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