Why don't special characters work in webpages?

Question

Like: the ~ in "Español" or the special c in "Français". Sometimes I find that it would appear fine for some minutes, but once I refresh the page, the words often change to "Espa?nol" or "Fran?ais" like it's unrecognizable.
This is especially true for MySpace.com.

Answer 1

You can make your web page display those special characters if you specify the encoding in the header (i.e., between and ). For standard PC/Windows type text, the statement looks like:

Other values of charset can be used to encode special character sets, for other languages than English, for example.

Alternatively, you can use HTML character codes beginning with "&", for example, &n tilde; (without the space) for ñ. See a list here: http://www.web-source.net/symbols.htm

Answer 2

utilizing html a movie star is ? and an outline of a movie star is ? once you've a mac, you may bypass to edit > particular characters and insert a movie star. All else fails, reproduction and paste... ?????????????????

Answer 3

it's because you are using Microsoft Windoze. This sub-standard operating system is incapable of being international unless you download a font pack.

You could download the thing of windows update or you could use Linux, of which, most distributions give you international character support.

http://www.linux.org/

a good distro:

http://www.ubuntu.com

Answer 4

you may need to code the character specifically ... if you can edit the html for the page. e.g. the code for ñ is [ampersand]ntilde;