Re: German_Umlauts

From: Martin Duerst (duerst@w3.org)
Date: Sat, Jun 30 2001

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    Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.J.20010630153049.036774b0@sh.w3.mag.keio.ac.jp>
    Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 15:33:31 +0900
    To: Rainer Ziener <ziener@tls-tautenburg.de>, www-validator@w3.org, mrengel@tls-tautenburg.de
    From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
    Subject: Re: German_Umlauts
    
    At 06:51 01/06/28 -0400, Rainer Ziener wrote:
    >Hallo,
    >
    >I am very interested to make all pages in correct HTML. Therefore I
    >use your validator.
    >My question concerns German Umlauts and other specicial characters.
    >For the normal ampersand the validator gives an error and I have to
    >write
    >&#38; or &amp;.
    
    You have to do that because otherwise it's difficult to
    distinguish a 'real' ampersand from an ampersand that
    starts something like &#38; or &amp;.
    
    
    
    >But if I write German Umlauts or so, the I donエt get
    >any error from the validator.
    
    Why should you? An umlaut is not a special character.
    
    
    >But some browsers display wrongly such
    >characters.
    
    Either your page has a problem (e.g. missing "charset" parameter,
    or it's a browser problem. Can you tell us your page address,
    and which browser gives the problem?
    
    
    Regards,   Martin.