Posted by Edwin van der Vaart on 06/28/05 23:56

David Dorward wrote:
> Edwin van der Vaart wrote:
>
>
>>>No need to use numberic character references for unicode characters -
>>>just save the document in a character encoding that supports the
>>>characters (like UTF-8), and make sure the server includes that
>>>information in the HTTP response header.
>
>>You mean save the document as *.txt with e.g. vi, gedit or notepad.
>
> I mean what I said (except for the typo of "numeric"). For a start we're
> talking about an HTML document, not a plain text file, and you have to
> ensure that you editor uses a suitable character encoding.
Sorry about that. I thought you was referring to the text file.
Thanx for clearing that up.

>>Upload to the webhost server and whalla it works great.
>
> So long as the server tells the browser what character encoding was used.
You're right.
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