Foreign character encoding on pages

[formmailer]

Hi,

I was looking at the source of one of my pages and noticed that the body (and some other parts) contained å ö ä ë etc.

Shouldn't these characters be encoded like å &öuml; ä ë?

Or is this no longer required and am I just an old fashioned HTML4 user?

/Jasper

[ryan]

I can't think of any reason why those characters would need to be entities in UTF-8 output. I'm guessing you are talking about a TinyMCE field, so that's what is determining what should be made into entities. On other text-based fields, you can select what text formatters you want to apply (including entity encoding). However, since we're using UTF-8 I don't think that the characters you indicated would ever be entity encoded, though I could be wrong.

[formmailer]

Cool!

When I didn't use a CMS to create my sites, I always used HTML4 and validated it using the W3C validator and it always pointed out that the should be entity encoded.

I just validated my PW site using the W3C validator and it went didn't have any problems with it, but I just wanted to be sure.

And since it validated, my guess is that you were right! 

/Jasper

[Soma]

No need to encode sepcial chars if you're using utf-8.