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Posted 16 June 2010 - 08:32 AM

Hi,
I am creating a Spanish version of an English web site. As you can imagine there are a lot of accented letters and special charactars in the text. Is there any alternative to inserting the HTML entity codes (&----

for each special charactar? A techy friend told me if I saved my input text as Unicode (save as plain text file with Unicode -utf-8 - coding) before importing it in to Dreamweaver, and if the following tag was in the head of my HTML document
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
then any browser should be able to read all of the text inclduing all of the special charactars.
Anyone know if this is true or what is best practice?
I have tried it on a test page, here:
http://www.ilovetari...x-esn-test.html
Internet Explorer can read the special charactars but Firefox can't.
???

Thanks
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