Titles are Latin-1 text (and not HTML). Do you need any non-Latin-1 characters for French? Link descriptions [that come after the pipe (|) in links] are HTML.

So don't use HTML entities in titles. If you have a hard time typing accented characters on your keyboard, then you can type HTML entities someplace other than the title and then cut'n'paste the rendered characters into the title.

A worse problem would be if your browser tried to send UTF-8 to PerlMonks instead of Latin-1, but that doesn't appear to be the case.

Note how the title for my reply displays correctly but the title of your node displays as HTML entities.

Update: Another problem could be if you have your browser set to override the content encoding that PerlMonks sends out with every page we serve. Our pages are served in Latin-1, but if you tell your browser to use Latin-2 or something despite what the web site tells it to do, then some accented characters will be displayed as the wrong character.

- tye        

In reply to Re: Special & Accented chars in nodes titles ==> [à la française] (!ents) by tye
in thread Special & Accented chars in nodes titles ==> [à la française] by dfaure

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
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    ] &#93;
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