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HTML HTML Text Paragraphs and Headlines

Janos Antal
Janos Antal
1,451 Points
Posted by Janos Antal
Janos Antal
1,451 Points

Special characters in html <p>

Hello!

I wanted to use special letters in my html practice file, like: áéöüóíú etc. But I get only "?" instead of the letters in the browser. I have <meta charset="utf-8"> included. Why I do not get the letters then?

cheers

3 Answers

Stephen Little
Stephen Little
8,312 Points
Stephen Little
Stephen Little
8,312 Points

Check out this page, I think it will give you what you want to know..

http://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_latin1_supplement.asp

Janos Antal
Janos Antal
1,451 Points
Janos Antal
Janos Antal
1,451 Points

nonononono I definitely do not want to use ascii and other codes instead of every letters. The browser shall show my letters normally if I place them as letters in the html code. If I check the the source of a hungarian text page then there are normal letters also in the code not things like "£"

Stephen Little
Stephen Little
8,312 Points
Stephen Little
Stephen Little
8,312 Points

Sorry I'm not sure, what charset are you using in your page? maybe look at

http://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_latin1_supplement.asp

hope this help, sorry if I'm not understanding what you are looking for ;(, just trying to help :)

Cheers!@

Janos Antal
Janos Antal
1,451 Points
Janos Antal
Janos Antal
1,451 Points

I use utf 8: meta charset="utf-8"

Stephen Little
Stephen Little
8,312 Points
Stephen Little
Stephen Little
8,312 Points

If you want to be able to type in those other chars I would think that you would have to use something like this instead of the utf-8

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1">

Again not sure if it helps, but knows ;)

have a great day!

Jeremy Castanza
Jeremy Castanza
12,081 Points
Jeremy Castanza
Jeremy Castanza
12,081 Points

Are you typing the entity in your HTML code?

For example, if you wanted a copyright symbol, you would want to type:

&copy;

...rather than just copy and pasting the symbol itself.