HTML heading and html special characters

Question

I'm trying to edit a index.html file but in my heading my html special character code is not showing on the screen.

Example:

<h5>Souscrire &#224; infolettre</h5>

This should display as "Souscrire à infolettre" but the à isn't showing.

Are you saying that the numeric-encoded character displays properly outside of the heading but not in the heading? What shows up in the heading? Are you using a unicode font for your headings? — Lèse majesté
– Lèse majesté, Commented Jan 10, 2012 at 7:18
No... Its display properly inside of the heading (<h5>Souscrire à infolettre</h5>) but not outside... Like when I look on my web page... And yes i am using a Unicode font. I don't understand why it does that only when i am using heading tags. — user12552
– user12552, Commented Jan 10, 2012 at 9:15
It seems that you are using different fonts for the heading and for the other parts. — martinstoeckli
– martinstoeckli, Commented Jan 10, 2012 at 19:01
@martinstoeckli: You might be right, but it'd have to be a pretty odd font if it doesn't have "à". I'd be more inclined to suspect a simple typo (say, &224; instead of à). — Ilmari Karonen
– Ilmari Karonen, Commented Jan 11, 2012 at 15:04

iammichiel · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-10 09:25:59Z

As a french user, you should not do that. Simply encode all your files in UTF-8 and you will be able to use whatever accent you want : ç,é,è,à,ô...

But you will need to add a little header to the html file.

<meta charset="utf-8">

+1; however, I'd suggest <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> for backwards compatibility with pre-HTML5 user agents. (Yes, they do still exist.) — Ilmari Karonen
– Ilmari Karonen, Commented Jan 11, 2012 at 15:00

John Conde · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-13 21:35:52Z

there's nothing wrong with your code, as you can see in this jsfiddle.

the problem has to be something else, but to find that out, we'll nee a bit more information:

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