| Diacritics If you want language diacritics to be displayed correctly in HTML, you must use the character entities. Many HTML editors will automatically translate language diacritics produced by your keyboard to their appropriate entity, but it's always useful to remember them in case you have to edit your HTMLs "manually." To see a complete list of these entities in a new browser window, select this link: Entities.html. Here are the
diacritics for Spanish, French and German:
<meta
http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/HTML;
Because the
HTML document may lack some of the HTML codes for them,
if you don't include this tag, the browser may display
your directly typed characters as "garbage,"
i.e., instead of your diacritical characters, you will
see little boxes and other unwanted symbols on your
final web page.
On a PC, you can type language diacritics in basically any program by setting your keyboard layout to US-International. This feature is accessible from the Control Panel. You will probably be required to install this option from the original Windows/Windows95 diskettes. Once it is installed, this keyboard layout does not change the English keys, but gives you the added possibility of typing language diacritics directly into your documents. These are the key combinations for language diacritics using the US-International keyboard layout:
Macintosh machines have this feature already built in their keyboards, so you just need to know the key strokes to type diacritics:
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