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In order to be able to publish texts daily using some editor like Notepad++ for example, I would like to type the words with an accent and save them in the HTML file. I’ve been reading that the UTF-8 a code for the accents is required.
For example the is corresponds to é.
I wonder if I can use charset ANSI in HTML files so you don’t have to be typing the codes UTF-8 for each special character or accent.
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You are confused, UTF-8 has nothing to do with "HTML entities" like é. UTF-8 is a way to represent the characters in bytes, as well as ANSI (Windows-1252, similar to ISO-8859-1, or Latin 1). The difference is that ANSI characters always use 1 byte each, while in UTF-8 uses 1 to 4 bytes. Therefore, with UTF-8 it is possible to represent a much larger amount of special characters.
Nowadays, it is highly recommended to use UTF-8 instead of ANSI or other more limited encoding. If files are saved as UTF-8 and HTML is being delivered by the server with the correct HTTP headers, everything will work smoothly.
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You are saying that I can type normally with accents as long as my charset is as UTF-8 and the file save as UTF-8. Okay all right. And when should I use
é?? for what exists this type of encoding?– Marco Felipe
This, can type normally :) You rarely need to use
áand similar, unless you want to prevent user-generated HTML code from being interpreted.– bfavaretto