[PLUG] html, character entities and ISO-8859-1

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

Does anyone know whether html character entities like é for é
and so forth are required substitutions or merely provided for
convenience of those with keyboards that don't support these accents?

I'm writing a web page in French and it's much harder to write, for
example, "j'ai été reçu", than to write "j'ai été
reçu".

Looking at examples on the web, I see a fair number that appear to be
encoded in 8859-1, but I also see enough non-conforming sites that I
don't want to make rash assumptions.  And I don't want to write a page
that some people can't read.

Thanks much for any informed notes or pointers.

-- 
 Jeff

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