HTML + using spanish characters

Question

Hi
If this is a dumb question - forgive me.
Note this is for a site that will be in English & Spansih
(translated pages
in Spanish)
But if I want to include spanish characters on a site do I
need to replace
each spanish character with ascii code or is there another
way to get the
characters to display
e.g.
resúmenes - do i have to enter it into the html as
resúmenes
also
When I view the pages on my pc the spanish characters display
correctly.
Once the pages are uploaded the spanish characters do not
display - why
would this happen?
Thanks
B
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Answer 1

Thanks david for the explaination.
So now I need to figure out how I can save my html as utf-8
without using
notepad (I don't have dreamweaver and have used up my trial
period).
Any one know of any other way of creating a utf-8 html file?
thanks
B
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>B wrote:
>> could you explain the difference in 'laymans terms'
>
> UTF-8 (Unicode) is designed to handle virtually all
writing systems,
> including Arabic, Japanese, Chinese - and English.
ISO-8859-1 is Western
> European encoding, which handles only those characters
used in Western
> European languages. ISO-8859-1 actually supports the
accented characters
> used in Spanish, but older browsers weren't always
capable of displaying
> them, which led to the use of HTML entities, such as
&ntilde;.
>
> If you select ISO-8859-1 (Western European) in
Dreamweaver, it
> automatically converts all accented characters, such as
those used in
> Spanish, into entities, which makes the code very
difficult to read. If
> you select UTF-8, the accented characters are preserved.
Since English
> doesn't have any accented characters, the encoding is
identical in
> ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8.
>
> If you're working with a database, though, it's very
important not to mix
> the two types of encoding for data that uses accented
characters. If you
> do, the accented characters will be garbled.
>
>> also I posted another ? regarding a BOM warning that
I now get after
>> saving as utf-8 - is this an issue?
>
> I saw that, but didn't reply because you said you used
Notepad. I have no
> idea how Notepad handles the BOM (if I remember
correctly, it stands for
> Byte Order Mark). As the validation warning told you,
older browsers can't
> handle the BOM, so it's best to omit it. Dreamweaver
Preferences let you
> determine whether to add the BOM or leave it out of
UTF-8 pages. By
> default, Dreamweaver omits the BOM.
>
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