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user188962
user188962

Reputation:

Can use of special characters in coding be a problem for users somehow?

I have a website with UTF-8 format on all pages.

The website is in Swedish so there are three special characters...

Using these characters in the code (values, ID:s, names etc) works fine on my computer and my browsers, but I wonder if it does work the same on all browsers?

In other words, do you think this will be a problem?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 58

Answers (2)

Emily
Emily

Reputation: 18193

It can be an issue. You'll need to make sure to set the correct character encoding on anything you're sending so the receiving computer will know how to interpret it. There's a good introduction to character encoding on the Joel On Software blog.

Upvotes: 1

Dor
Dor

Reputation: 7484

It's OK as long as your application, and other applications that you talk with, know that the text is UTF-8 encoded.

Upvotes: 2

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