[thelist] character encoding tip
Emma Jane Hogbin
emmajane at xtrinsic.com
Thu Mar 13 11:47:10 CST 2003
Not sure if this is already in the tips, but I thought I'd send it again
for good measure.
<tip author="emmajane" topic="character encoding">
Make sure your encoded characters match the encoding your pages are using.
A character that looks like this in your code: ’ is a UTF-8
character. However, many pages still use the ISO-8859-1 encoding. Although
browsers might display the character the way you intended it's not right
to mix and match.
The HTML entity for the curly apostrophe is: ’ that's: right single
quote. You can also have “ "left side double quote" and ”
"right side double quote" if you want curly quotes around your words.
A comparison chart of HTML entities, ISO-8859-1 encodings and UTF-8
encodings can be found at:
http://www.woram.com/tests/MISC-01.HTM
</tip>
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