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 Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 05/18/07 09:44 
Scripsit Karl C.: 
 
> Thanks for this informative answer, 
 
You didn't need to quote it comprehensively. Just the opposite is true:  
courtesy requires that you only quote the relevant part that you are  
responding to. 
 
> You've mentioned to put in the 'ë' character right away, I tried 
> that, but when using UTF-8 I have all the difficulties getting the 
> page validated on W3C, 
 
That's because you didn't put the character there as UTF-8 encoded. Of  
course, if you declare UTF-8 encoding, everything shall be interpreted  
according to it. 
 
If your authoring tool doesn't really support UTF-8, the question arises  
whether you should use UTF-8 at all (instead of, say, ISO-8859-1). 
 
> Without these 'ë' characters the page validates 
> perfectly using XHTML Transitional (even XHTML1.1). 
 
I hope you realize that XHTML as a delivery format of web pages almost never  
gives any real benefits over HTML 4.01, and XHTML 1.1 causes some real  
trouble e.g. if you ever plan to use client-side image maps for example. 
 
--  
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca") 
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
 
  
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