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Ivan Monge
3,327 PointsHow can I write Spanish without using special character list in HTML?
So I am trying to write Spanish and several other languages in HTML. But I keep getting ???? when special characters appear such as ñ, á and others. How can I set those up without having to write the characters from the special characters list.
3 Answers
Michael Hulet
47,912 PointsInstead of writing the character itself, you can instead use an HTML entity to represent the character. For example, to write an ñ, you could instead write something like this:
<!-- Both of these represent the same character -->
ñ ñ
Here's a good resource on HTML entities for accented characters
Ivan Monge
3,327 PointsYes, but thats exactly what i dont want to do. Wikipedia in Spanish does not use this method and I still dont quite understand how they manage to do it.
Michael Hulet
47,912 PointsAlternatively, you can specify that your page is encoded in utf-8, like this:
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
</head>
However, the HTML entity method guarantees that all older browsers will be able to understand how to render these special characters, as well