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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