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

Audrey,

http://www.canopy.net/techtraining/asciisymbols.html

is but one of may available copies of the ASCII Latin1 Character set.

Some of us anal retentives out here who have very old fashioned idea about
the way things *actually* work have used this set for many many years with
ZERO defects.

Of course, based on that criteria alone, I'm sure it should be rejected,
but that is the best I can do.

Fuzzy
Sorry Audrey, I'm still mad as hell - but not at you.


At 01:33 PM 2/13/01 -0500, Audrey Murray wrote:
>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 ü 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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