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I have tons of å, æ and ø on my websites. Some search engines have problems with them but not Google.
On our website we have to go back and take out the code bloating by hand whenever we make up a new webpage. The only program that doesn't automatically code bloat is the "Human". I suggest you take out the code bloating by hand after you make up each page.
In saying that, you do need to know a little about writing code by hand or it will change the look of your webpage.
I code html manualy using text editors (HTML kit or Dreamweaver)
Then i use a freeware proggy http*//www.orbit.org/replace/
to replace all conflicting char like čćšČĆŠ in all files at once. I hvae serious problems doing it with php script(not much of a programmer :-).
I'll submit my page shortly to SE and I'll reply the results as soon as i get crawled.
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I would certainly expect Google to interpret it correctly.
> a normal alphabet
Not quite sure what a "normal" alphabet is. Many of the problems with html comes from the fact that for reasons unknown to me it is designed around the English alphabet which is a very limited alphabet.
The inventor was English speaking. Also at this time, English was by far the most dominant language used on the Internet.
This is not code bloat - your code is not valid if you use & in your title instead of &
troels nybo nielsen:
> BIG says BIG
> I would certainly expect Google to interpret it correctly.
Thanks for that, I'd never thought about it.
Sometimes an advantage may be a handicap and a handicap may be an advantage. Trying for some years to create websites at a reasonably decent quality level in a "small" language on a web dominated by the English language forces a webmaster to awareness of certain problems and their solutions. Problems (and solutions) that may be less obvious for webmasters writing in English but still have some relevance for them too.
Perhaps it's too "easy" to create websites in English?
The inventor was English speaking.
Yes, yes, I'm English speaking too, but that doesn't make the version of the Latin alphabet used by native English speakers any more 'normal', as Athlon describes it, than the versions used by Danish or Norwegian speakers (for example).
Troels is quite right. Compared to most other oral languages which have adopted the Latin alphabet to express themselves in written form, written English is by far one of the most limited in terms of the number of symbols it uses. It is unusual and frustrating that we only use five vowel symbols to illustrate over twenty vowel sounds whereas most languages written in Latin use more symbols to describe less sounds.
To answer the original question, I use letters like ü all the time and Google doesn't have a problem...
If you want to validate you must use & regardless whether it's followed by white space or not.
I tried to point out early that when a program uses a code and other programs use a shorter code, then in my mind that longer code is called code bloating. I read somewhere on this post that I was wrong, but I don't think I am.
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