Charset/encoding?

Basic question about accented characters etc

[Warboss Alex]

Hey everyone,

On my pages I'd like to make use of the accented vowels such as é, â, î etc. I'm currently using the utf-8 charset, because it seems to be rendering the characters correctly.

Is this the best charset to use? Will other browsers/computers render the characters properly? I really don't know much about the subject.

Thanks for any help,
Alex ...

[g1smd]

As long as you are saving the file as a Unicode / UTF-8 file from your text editor, and as long as you declare the usage in the meta content-type tag then it should all work fine.

Make sure that you offer a choice of fonts and a font-family in your CSS definitions, and that the selected characters are actually in each of those fonts.

[ergophobe]

If you're a glutton for punishment and want to read more, see

[webmasterworld.com...]

Most of this doesn't really concern you except the part about Windws-1252 vs ISO-8859-1 vs UTF-8