RE: Character entities

["Beckers, Marc" <Marc.Beckers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Like XML, HTML 4.0 is mostly defined in terms of UCS/Unicode 
> characters,
> which of course must be encoded. There is a mechanism for a 
> document to
> signal its own character encoding via a META declaration. 
> This could be
> overridden by a charset parameter in an HTTP Content-Type header.
> 
> This stuff is discussed at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/charset.html#sp

Thanks for this, Mike.
If we generate the line
<META HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html" charset="UTF-8">
in the HEAD of our output HTML, hey presto.
What was that about wood and trees...?
Marc


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