This is written in UTF-8 and declared as such. I do write accented charachters explicitly as such, say, in French, « caractères accentués » for “accented charachters”. I am not using numeric entities because I want my code to be readable. Here I am calling a note by a digit one like this1.

After some more text comes the note.

1. In real life, I would put the digit one calling this note in upper position, but let’s keep it simple here.