number or name for special character

[The Bicycling Guitarist]

A browser conforming to HTML 4.0 is required to recognize &#number;
notations.
If I use XHTML 1.0 and charset UTF-8 though, does é have as much
support as é ?

Sometimes when I run the TIDY utility on my code, it replaces my character
notations with weird looking things I don't recognize. Also, when I
converted to UTF-8 from ISO-8859-1, I discovered many special characters
didn't make the transition well.

Thanks for all the help from the wonderful people in this group.

[Alan J. Flavell]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Tim wrote:

Probably easier just to use an editor that lets me program what the
F keys do.

For the occasional odd-ball character (unlike the ones that you'll
need to type at least several times a day) I find it preferable to use
a graphical character-picker tool. But this is something you'd get
advice about on a group that's about authoring with your particular
choice of OS - it's not really specific to HTML nor even to web
authoring.