Rookie question.
Would guys recommend using Html ASCII or does the browser handle this part? I was reading through W3Schools and I’m just curious if this is something I should always consider as a good habit.
It's always a good idea to include <meta charset="UTF-8"> in the <head> of your HTML documents. This lets the browser know that your document is encoded with Unicode.
It's perfectly fine to use Unicode characters in an HTML document, but it's better to use HTML entity names or entity numbers.
(see a list of entity names and numbers and learn more on
w3schools.)
According to w3schools,
If you use an HTML entity name or a hexadecimal number,
the character will always display correctly.
This is independent of what character set (encoding) your page uses!
This means that entity names and numbers are guaranteed to work, even if you don't put <meta charset="UTF-8"> in the <head> of the document.
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Code: http://pastebin.com/QBLeLyNq
I couldn't get the "code" thingy to work, thanks.
My error is here
Ran small business before. (£145 Profit, £6 Investment)
It is coming out as "£" on my site. I only know HTML and don't know too much about CSS or encoding. Could someone please explain to me why this is happening?
Try using £ for British Pound (and € for Euro).
You need to escape special characters in HTML, unless...
You address the encoding issue on a document-wide level by adding the following line of code at the beginning of the <head> section:
<meta charset="utf-8">
Then you don't need to escape special characters individually.
Further reading:
Character encodings for beginners
Declaring character encodings in HTML
Declaring character encodings in CSS
Use £
or specify the right encoding of your html file.
Add this in your <head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
and you can use any special character without having to look for the html version.
This is assuming that your code editor is set to UTF-8 (which certainly is).
I want to display an "a" in html with bar over it..as in ā. Like I want to write āyush.
I also used overline but that makes it ugly.
Pasting the characted in html gives a-.
In html it is ā (lowercase) or Ā (uppercase).
Replace it with ā
See an example here
Make sure you set your charset in the head of the document.
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
You haven't given us enough info to be certain, but this is likely to be an encoding issue. I would guess that the character set you're sending the page in is probably just the default and doesn't include any extended characters.
You need to serve the page as UTF-8.
Add this to your <head> block:
<meta charset="utf-8">
that should be sufficient to fix it.
If you can't change the character set for whatever reason, you could send the character as a HTML entity -- find out the numeric entity code for it and use the &#xxx; notation (where xxx is the character code you require).
You have two main options: use character references like &x#101;, or insert the character “ā” using a tool that does not munge it. In the former case, you need not worry about character encodings, but some other characters may have similar issues without your noticing it. In the latter case, you need to make sure that the character encoding is properly set; see the W3C document Character encodings. Note that setting a meta tag may or may not be sufficient, depending on server.
Either way, there can be font problems. For example, a browser might pick up a glyph for “ā” from a font that is very different from the one used for “a”, causing typographic mess. To avoid this, use a font-family list containing a good selection of fonts containing all the characters you need. More info: Guide to using special characters in HTML.
The meta section of HTML documents can contain a keyword section.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta name="description" content="under construction" />
<meta name="keywords"
content="..." />
Can one use unicode characters in this section (i.e., \u00B0)? If yes how?
All the characters you put into an HTML document, whether in attribute values or elsewhere, as Unicode characters. If the character encoding of your document is UTF-8, as your example declares (but it had better be UTF-8 encoded then!), you can enter any characters, such as the degree sign (°), directly there. How you do that depends on your authoring environment. You can alternatively use a character reference (like °) or, for some characters, an entity reference (like °).
But \u00B0 is not an HTML notation. It just a sequence of six characters. It has a special meaning in JavaScript, but not in HTML. The corresponding HTML notation is °.
Search engines will probably ignore special characters like the degree sign in keywords. But not necessarily; Google has been observed to be sensitive to them in some special situations. (Not for the degree sign at the moment, it seems.)
In <meta name=description ...> tags, special characters may be relevant if search engines use their content when constructing the page description for search result lists. Such things still happen, though less frequently than they used to.
Because non-English websites that use Unicode for their body content will also use Unicode for their metadata, it is reasonable to assume that the important tools that process HTML metadata will be able to cope with this in UTF-8.
Also bear in mind that (at least historically) the keywords meta tag was meant to contain terms that people might search for. Your example \00B0 is the degrees sign; in this case it seems more likely people will search for the word degrees than for the symbol °. Because of wide-scale abuse of keyword metadata, many search engines (including Google) ignore them for search ranking.
So, in summary, I think it is safe to use Unicode keyword metadata. But it probably won't improve your site's search ranking for those terms.
I was just wondering whether diacritics need to be transformed to entities or can be just copy-pasted into my source code, providing that I have <meta charset="UTF-8"> in my <head> section of my document.
I remember that diacritics for a specific language render only if the browser's language is set to that specific language. Otherwise, strange characters will be displayed. Am I right? What can I do to make sure that certain diacritics will display correctly in any language regardless the browser's language?
Thanks!
With UTF-8 setting in <head> it works without problems. ľščťžýáíäňôř
i have a website in which i have to put some lines in Arabic.... how to do it...
where to get the Arabic text characters... how to make the page support Arabic...
i have to put a line per page and there is a lotta lotta pages so can't go around making images and putting them...
This is the answer that was required but everybody answered only part one of many.
Step 1 - You cannot have the multilingual characters in unicode document.. convert the document to UTF-8 document
advanced editors don't make it simple for you... go low level...
use notepad to save the document as meName.html & change the encoding
type to UTF-8
Step 2 - Mention in your html page that you are going to use such characters by
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
Step 3 - When you put in some characters make sure your container tags have the following 2 properties set
dir='rtl'
lang='ar'
Step 4 - Get the characters from some specific tool\editor or online editor like i did with Arabic-Keyboard.org
example
<p dir="rtl" lang="ar" style="color:#e0e0e0;font-size:20px;">رَبٍّ زِدْنٍي عِلمًا</p>
NOTE: font type, font family, font face setting will have no effect on special characters
The W3C has a good introduction.
In short:
HTML is a text markup language. Text means any characters, not just ones in ASCII.
Save your text using a character encoding that includes the characters you want (UTF-8 is a good bet). This will probably require configuring your editor in a way that is specific to the particular editor you are using. (Obviously it also requires that you have a way to input the characters you want)
Make sure your server sends the correct character encoding in the headers (how you do this depends on the server software you us)
If the document you serve over HTTP specifies its encoding internally, then make sure that is correct too
If anything happens to the document between you saving it and it being served up (e.g. being put in a database, being munged by a server side script, etc) then make sure that the encoding isn't mucked about with on the way.
You can also represent any unicode character with ASCII
You not only have to put the meta tag, telling that it is UTF-8 but really make the document UTF-8. You can do that with good editors (like notepad++) by converting them to "unicode" or "UTF-8 without BOM". Than you can simply use arabic characters
As this page is UTF-8, here are some examples (I hope I don't write anything rude here): شغف
If you use a server side scripting language make sure that it does not output the page in a different encoding. In PHP e.g. you can set it like this:
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
If you don't even know where to get Arabic characters, but you want to display them, then you're doing something wrong.
Save files containing Arabic characters with encoding UTF-8. A good editor allows you to set the character encoding.
In the HTML page, place the following after <head>:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
If you're using XHTML:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
That's it.
An alternative way (without messing with the encoding of a file), is using HTML escape sequences. This website does that jobs for you: http://www.htmlescape.net/
Won't you need the ensure the area where you display the Arabic is Right-to-Left orientated also?
e.g.
<p dir="rtl">
i edit the html page with notepad ++ ,set encoding to utf-8 and its work
As mentioned above, by default text editors will not use UTF-8 as the standard encoding for documents.
However most editors will allow you to change that in the settings. Even for each specific document.
Check you have <meta charset="utf-8"> inside head block.