Re: Character Entities in alt, meta, select, etc...

Audrey,
Thanks for bringing this up.  I don't know the answer, but wish to add my
experience in just using the ampersand in Title and metatags.  My site is
http://jsjbf.com and we are the "Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Foundation" OR
"Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Foundation", depending upon how the rules are
applied.

I used the escape code in my metatags and in title tags.  Most everywhere
that I have seen this our site listed, everything was fine, but I did notice
on one Search Engine, and I cannot remember which one it was, that it read
up the character string literally instead of translating it into just the
"&".  Of course, it looks ridiculous to the user!!!

I am very interested to see if anyone else has some insight into this
situation.
Kate Pollara


----- Original Message -----
From: "Audrey Murray" <Audrey(at)JGSullivan.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 1:33 PM
Subject: Character Entities in alt, meta, select, etc...


> Hello,
>
> I have a question which I can't find any definite answer to. What is
> the proper way to format these special character entities in html? I
> know how to use them to actually display the characters on the
> screen, but where I keep getting conflicting info is when using them
> for the following:
> - meta tags
> - alt text
> - title tags
> - in select menus on forms
> and anywhere else you can imagine!
>
> We do a lot of work for international clients and this is critical.
> For example, a German client has requested specific words for their
> keywords, in the META tag. I don't know if I should use the keystroke
> character for something such as a 'u' with the dots over it, or if I
> should use the &uuml; grouping? Same with the alt text; again, they
> are very specific on what they need and I have to make sure search
> engines pick up the proper wordings.
>
> Any help anybody can provide would be greatly appreciated...and of
> course, the sooner the better. Thanks very much, in advance.
> Audrey Murray
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