HTML 4 Entities - html

Is there a concise way to scan an html script for entities it is unfamiliar with and import them with their html codes? All I'm getting in place of a 'degree celsius' character, for example, is a question mark.

I think your problem is that you're not declaring character encoding. What you need to do is this:
In your <head> element, insert the following code:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1">
Reference from MDN
Reference from W3Schools

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HTML how to get it to display čšž on your site

Trying to learn to make a site. And right from the start:
How do I get HTML to display ščž and other various special characters like ł,ß,ö..?
You need to specify a character set so the browser knows what's being used in the page. For example, in your head section, try putting:-
<meta charset="UTF-8">
You can also try specifying symbols using their entity name/code, using the character reference table here - https://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref
Here's an HTML5 example. meta declares the encoding of the HTML file. Make sure to save the file in that encoding!
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>How do I get HTML to display ščž and other various special characters like ł,ß,ö,&#x9A6C..?</body>
</html>
You can enter any character you know the Unicode codepoint using &#xnnnn syntax. In the example above, U+9A6C is the Chinese character for horse(马).

htmllabel for objective c swaps words for Right to Left Languages [Arabic]

I am using HTMLLabel class to display html content [string with some attributes for subparts (e.g. bold ,italic and color)].I have faced some problems like \n should be replaced <br/> when appending to the content of the HTMLLabel -__- but over all every thing worked just fine until I tried to write RTL language in the html file.. The result was not expected as words are shown swapped. for example :
{السلام عليكم والرحمة }
is shown like this :
{الرحمة و عليكم السلام }
I have posted the issue in the HTMLLabel page in GitHup..
Any help is extremely appreciated..
EDIT:
The result I am getting from the server is a list of strings like :
"السلام عليكم <b>والرحمة</b>"
NOT an HTML File!
You need these to create a HTML5 page with language as Arabic, direction as RTL, and utf-8 encoded
<!DOCTYPE html> For declaring it as a HTML5 page
<html dir="rtl" lang="ar"> For direction and language
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> For utf-8

Breaking multiple values in an attribute into multiple lines?

Let me explain by example:
<html lang="en-US" prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns# fb: http://ogp.me/ns/fb# article: http://ogp.me/ns/article#">
...
</html>
As you can see, the prefix attribute in the html tag has multiple definitions. How do I break them into multiple lines? (Considering that a line break is equivalent a space when minified back into a single line... it's kinda tough.)
Is this considered normal?
<html lang="en-US" prefix="
og: http://ogp.me/ns#
fb: http://ogp.me/ns/fb#
article: http://ogp.me/ns/article#
">
EDIT: Facebook does it like this: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/payments/product/
<html lang="en-US" prefix=
"og: http://ogp.me/ns#
fb: http://ogp.me/ns/fb#
article: http://ogp.me/ns/article#">
The attribute values are different. Each whitespace character is stored in the DOM. Whether the difference matters depends on the definition of the attribute. Many attributes, such as class, are defined as taking a set of whitespace-separated tokens as value, and for them, the amount and type of whitespace characters between tokens, or before the first token and after the last token, does not matter.
The prefix attribute is not present in HTML specifications or drafts. The relevant specification is RDFa Core 1.1, which defines the prefix attribute as
“a white space separated list of prefix-name IRI pairs” and contains examples like
<html
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
prefix="foaf: http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
dc: http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
>
So for the prefix attribute, formatting as in the question is acceptable. (Whether it is “normal” in a sense other than “conforming” is a matter of opinion.)
I don't think it's all that "normal". In general, like the comments to your question suggest, it's technically possible but you're opening your page up to (unnecessary) potential parsing errors.
Look to the HTML WG's example regarding using newlines in the title attribute as a concrete example of this.
Furthermore, I was unable to find/remember a single case where I'd seen this used on purpose, with the exception of SVG (but that's not technically HTML).
However, if you run this sample through the W3C's validator, it'll pass with no errors or warnings in regards to multi-line attributes:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US" prefix="
og: http://ogp.me/ns#
fb: http://ogp.me/ns/fb#
article: http://ogp.me/ns/article#
">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Hello</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello World!</h1>
</body>
</html>
Generally, it's better to be safe than sorry. Since I couldn't find any examples to the contrary in this case, I'd venture to say that other developers would agree (Do by all means correct me if I'm wrong).

The reference to entity "subset" must end with the ';' delimiter [duplicate]

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The reference to entity "foo" must end with the ';' delimiter
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I am trying to include webfonts in the template of a Blogger blog:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html b:version='2' class='v2' expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xmlns:b='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b' xmlns:data='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>
<head>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Share:400,700&subset=latin,latin-ext' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Istok+Web:400,700&subset=latin,latin-ext' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<meta content='IE=EmulateIE7' http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible'/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.isMobile'>
<meta content='width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0' name='viewport'/>
<b:else/>
And when I try to save the template, I get:
Error parsing XML, line 5, column 76: The reference to entity "subset" must end with the ';' delimiter.
I tried to add a ; but unsuccessfully. The links are generated and taken from Google Web Font.
How should I solve this issue? Thanks.
That's because & is a reserved character in XML that means "an XML entity begins here". XML entities let you print characters or sequences of characters that are hard for you to embed in your document literally, either because you don't have it on your keyboard or because the document encoding forbids it. For instance, in (X)HTML, é prints the character "é", which is not easy to find on most US keyboard. (Available entities depend on the <!DOCTYPE> declaration of your XML document.)
The problem with that scheme is that it means you can't unambiguously leave literal & characters around your document if they can be the start of an entity, so you need to encode them as an entity to solve that problem.
You will need to replace all your stray & with &, which will print & without angering the XML parser. In your case, you should be good with replacing &subset= by &subset= in your two <link> tags.
Ampersands in XML indicate the start of an entity reference. It starts with an ampersand, then there's a marker indicating which entity it is referring to, then a semicolon to end it. In order to include a literal ampersand in a document, you need to use a character entity reference that refers to an ampersand, i.e. &.
As you have not done this, the parser is trying to parse the following data as if it were an entity reference, which it is not. That is why it fails to parse - it can't find the semi-colon at the end of the entity reference because it's not supposed to be an entity reference.
For instance, where you have:
http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Share:400,700&subset=latin,latin-ext
You should have:
http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Share:400,700&subset=latin,latin-ext

How to fix the font issue in HTML?

I have Html (hello.html) like bellow
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
¿Hola cómo está?
</div>
</body>
</html>
It shows out as "¿Hola cómo está?" when run in browser
Is there any solution to get correct out put without altering the
hello.html file?
I hope that, it is in Spanish language but i looking for any other solution like as change the encode type or font in browser or editor.
Edit: Just noticed the requirement. But some Spanish characters require Unicode and you have to declare that in your html file.
Put this in your head.
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
I don't see whats wrong, if you are refering to the font type in the html and the webpage is different is because of your editor, if you really want to change the font you will need to set the font tag around your text or even better define it in the CSS
Based on the clarification in the comment section to your question....
If you are using Google Chrome, and your computer is set to an English locale, load the page, then right click on the body, and select "Translate to English."
Sounds like an interview trick question, rather than a programming one.
No.
You cannot do this without altering the html file.
Place this <meta> tag in your Head Section
<meta charset="UTF-8">