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Michal M
Michal M

Reputation: 9480

Is there a need to use HTML entities when using Unicode?

I am building a website for a German client, so the text on the website will regularly contain characters like:

Is it necessary for to convert all those characters to their HTML Entities while the website uses UTF-8 character encoding everywhere?

Or maybe there's no relation between the two areas?

When (if at all) should I convert those to their HTML Entities, then?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 128

Answers (1)

bobince
bobince

Reputation: 536715

You should convert to HTML entity or character references when:

a. you are stuck with some editor or processing component that doesn't support Unicode properly;

b. you have manually-edited markup with confusable characters. For example, if you have a non-breaking-space that is important to lay out correctly, you might want to write it as   or   so that it's obvious and doesn't get replaced with a normal space when someone edits the file.

Other than that, no, just go with the raw versions.

Upvotes: 2

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