By tvst on

why does drupal not use named html entities for accents? (ie ã = ã)

sorry if this has been discussed before, but i couldn't find anything about it using the search box.

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Steven’s picture

Steven commented

HTML entities are only necessary when the characters in question are not part of the character set. Because Drupal uses UTF-8 for encoding its data, the only entities that are required are for special HTML characters such as < > and ".

tvst’s picture

tvst commented

i know the people here wouldn't do something like that randomly :)

sirmmo’s picture

sirmmo commented

Unluckily it's not really unnecessary. In fact, I must say, some modules would need it (for example pdfview)...

federico’s picture

federico commented

Check this:
http://www.econlink.com.ar/definicion/inflacion.shtml
On IE6 and opera accents are replaced by extrange characters. it's a 4.7.3 clean install.
¿Any solution?