i'm working on a website that needs to be displayed in french and english.... the problem i'm having is every so often i'll look at a page in firefox and some of the accented characters will appear as question marks.. i'm wondering whether or not i should be worrying about changing the characters to their & equivalents.. i.e é to é i was also wondering what the best charset would be for displaying the french characters
ISO-8859 is the normal western european character set to enable you to have é etc without many issues. I dont remember my french enough to know if a word without the accent could mean something very different to the same word with the accent however irrespective of that it will feel a token effort to the french speakers if accents arent included.
well, the right charset is probably all i need.. but i was also wondering what i should do in this situation if i have some html like <p>Ce lien procure un accès à une version <strong>non-dynamique</strong> de l'information du système dans la perspective d'un administrateur de système.</p> should i change it to <p>Ce lien procure un accès à une version <strong>non-dynamique</strong> de l'information du système dans la perspective d'un administrateur de système.</p> or is it ok to leave as is?