French language special characters
Warren Steel
> Anyone have any tips for including french language special characters
> (accents etc.) in an HTML document. I thought these were standard ascii
> characters (I can use them in the DOS EDITor), but when I ftp (ascii) the
> file to unix, all accented characters disappeaer.
Web documents use the character set commonly called ISO-Latin-1; see
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_9.html#SEC9.7.2
E.g., for e with an acute accent use either é or é
Other documents at this site explain almost everything you could
want to know about HTML and the Web.
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Brent
>
> Anyone have any tips for including french language special characters
> (accents etc.) in an HTML document. I thought these were standard ascii
> characters (I can use them in the DOS EDITor), but when I ftp (ascii) the
> file to unix, all accented characters disappeaer.
>
> Scott
> email: umra...@cc.umanitoba.ca
> --I believe if you go to character map in windows and get the ascii code
for the character you want. you insert it into the syntax as....
&#the ascii number; IE ¦
Brent
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Laird Scott Rankin
Mike Crowley
Language specific characters (like accented vowels) are usually part of
the extended-ASCII character set. If you plan on using them, you'll need
to convert them to the appropriate HTML equivalent to make your document
system independent. Look at the ISO Latin-I alphabet at:
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html3/latin1.html
The table also includes more common ASCII characters like " & < and >
which have HTML equivalents.
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Alan J. Flavell
In article <4crcbv$c...@news.internetmci.com>, Mike Crowley
<mcro...@usa.racal.com> writes:
>Language specific characters (like accented vowels) are usually part of
>the extended-ASCII character set.
You're on the right lines, but this needs more careful
explanation. Character encodings are basically a simple topic,
but cause an amazing amount of misunderstanding.
There is no such thing as "the" extended-ASCII character set.
There are many. One of them is the default network encoding
for HTTP: ISO-8859-1 (and this is the only one that browsers are
currently required to support). If your server can put those
onto the net, you can, if you wish, use 8-bit character codes,
although I personally would not recommend it.
> If you plan on using them, you'll need
>to convert them to the appropriate HTML equivalent to make your document
>system independent. Look at the ISO Latin-I alphabet at:
>http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html3/latin1.html
Yup. In fact, the ISO Latin-1 entity names were already
standard at HTML2.0. Many of the other ISO-8859-1 characters
did not have names at HTML2.0, though, and need to be encoded
by using the &#number; notation - using the decimal value of
the code point _in_ _the_ ISO-8859-1 code.
Fuller explanations via: http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/iso8859/
regards
Sean McGuire
>Laird Scott Rankin wrote:
>>
>> Anyone have any tips for including french language special characters
>> (accents etc.) in an HTML document. I thought these were standard ascii
>> characters (I can use them in the DOS EDITor), but when I ftp (ascii) the
>> file to unix, all accented characters disappeaer.
>>
>> All help Appreciated,
>> Scott
>> email: umra...@cc.umanitoba.ca
>> --I believe if you go to character map in windows and get the ascii code
>for the character you want. you insert it into the syntax as....
>&#the ascii number; IE ¦
I use the form: &[letter][accent]; where accent is usually grave, acute,
cedilla, and maybe umlaut... so the proper spelling of Quebec (with the
accent) is Queèbec in HTML.
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TRAN Huu Da
| cedilla, and maybe umlaut... so the proper spelling of Quebec (with the
| accent) is Queèbec in HTML.
Wrong :-) -> Québec is Québec
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Dave Salovesh
>Once, Sean McGuire (se...@iti-s01.iti.qc.ca) speculated about:
>| so the proper spelling of Quebec (with the accent) is Queèbec in HTML.
>
>Wrong :-) -> Québec is Québec
Actually, Québec is fine as is. =:-O
... or should that be &smiley; ?
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