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

[gyoza@comcast.net]

Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

> 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.
>  


Look at this: http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-html40-971107/charset.html#h-5.3

"A given character encoding may not be able to express all characters of 
the document character set. For such encodings, or when hardware or 
software configurations do not allow users to input document characters 
directly, SGML entity references may be used. Entity references are a 
character encoding-independent mechanism for entering any character from 
the document character set."
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