Help during web development:special and accented foreign characters

Special characters

Special, non-alphabetic or numeric characters need to be entered in a special way onto web pages.

This pages will list these characters.

In stead of entering them directly from the keyboard, a special reserved must be entered in the following format:

• an ampersand-character (&)
• the reserved word - note that the word is case sensitive
• a semicolon

Accented characters

Accent characters used in many non-English languages (f.i. a-trema) are not displayed correctly in every browser software if entered directly from the keyboard.

To solve this problem a wide range of reserved words are recognized by the web browsers which are being translated into a corresponding accented character when they are encountered on web pages.

The following table list (most of) these reserved words.

As with the special characters in the table above they need to be entered in the web source by entering:

• an ampersand-character (&)
• the reserved word - note that the word is case sensitive
• a semicolon