This tutorial provides advice in the following areas:
- choosing an encoding for XHTML/HTML documents
- when and how to declare the character encoding (charset) for documents using XHTML/HTML and CSS
- aspects of serving and coding XHTML/HTML files that affect the above
- when and how to use escapes and entities to represent characters
The tutorial attempts to assist newcomers to this area by incorporating explanations of the basic concepts needed to understand the advice
given.
For a summary of the do's and don'ts in this section, read the Working Draft of
Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization: Characters and Encodings. (Still a work in progress.)
How to use this material
This material is organized around a set of presentation slides which can be viewed in several ways. Each view is identified by an icon
as described below.
All in one A single page containing all explanatory text followed by
small accompanying slides.
Slide by slide One
page per slide view. This is particularly useful if you need to see the detail on a slide.
Slide text This page by page
version of the slides is provided mainly for those who want to cut and paste the text on the slides. (You will need appropriate fonts and rendering
software to see the text correctly.)
Overview The overview
provides a list of headings to help you navigate around the presentation quickly.
Please send any comments to ishida@w3.org.
