Meta Tags & Special Character

Something i always did, but never questioned:

When I have special characters in my title, keyword or description meta tag, I always convert them.

So instead of

<title>Flexi[B][COLOR="Red"]ó[/COLOR][/B]n Lateral</title>

Code (markup):

I always write

<title>Flexi[B][COLOR="Red"]&oacute;[/COLOR][/B]n Lateral</title>

Code (markup):

Is this actually necessary?
Useless?
Or is it good for SE?

 

You might find this useful:

http://www.seologic.com/faq/title-tags.php#special

 

No it's really better to use HTML chars. If somebody doesn't agree please show me some evidence - documents or articles supporting your point of view.

 

It depends on your charset in the <meta> tag, and your editor's encoded.