Why is it recommended that french characters be translated into their "web" equivalent: ?= & eacute; ??<br />
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"?quot; validates so, I don't see what the problem is. Anyone have info on this?<!--content-->There is no reason, that only applies for special entities such as &, <, > and so on and so forth. You do, however, need to denote that there is a language change when you use French characters in an English-language document, or one that has an English charset.<br />
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See The W3C (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/charset.html">http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/charset.html</a><!-- m -->) for more information.<!--content-->
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"?quot; validates so, I don't see what the problem is. Anyone have info on this?<!--content-->There is no reason, that only applies for special entities such as &, <, > and so on and so forth. You do, however, need to denote that there is a language change when you use French characters in an English-language document, or one that has an English charset.<br />
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See The W3C (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/charset.html">http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/charset.html</a><!-- m -->) for more information.<!--content-->