Lars Eilebrecht wrote:
> According to Andrew Daviel:
>
> > Indeed, I'm a bit vague on whether one can use HTML reserved characters
> > like "&", "<" inside the HTML META CONTENT string.
> >
> > The question as I interpret it is whether one can put
> > <META NAME="DC.Description" CONTENT="Bienvenu á Jorg">
> > or need
> > <META NAME="DC.Description" CONTENT="Bienvenu á Jorg">
>
> Both variants are IMHO ok.
> You can use every ISO-8859-1 character directly in a content string,
> but the HTML 4.0 spec says, that you _may_ include character entities
> (a user agent should replace these character entities with normal characters).
> The only characters that _must_ be encoded as a character entity
> are "&", "<", ">" and <">.
You can only "use every ISO-8859-1 character directly in a content string"
if your charset is ISO-8859-1.
> ciao...
> --
> Lars Eilebrecht - "Belief is not the beginning,
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Misha
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