Re: Accidental à in html ... how?

Subject: Re: Accidental à in html ... how?
From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
To: "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 11:05:45 -0800

What is the raw HTML for the problem characters?

 is &reg; &#174; or &#x00AE;

The à ligature is &AElig; &#198; or &#xe6;

If the HTML is correct, the charset for the page might be wrong.

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Sean Brierley
<sean -dot- brierley -at- gerbertechnology -dot- com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got some HTML that has à in place of registered trademark symbols.
>
> I tested saving from Word and a variety of copy-paste-into-text editor
> scenarios, but can't figure out how this happened.
>
> I want to help the original author fix their process so à does not show up
> in their html text. Anyone have any ideas how they did this? (No, there is
> no Norwegian or foreign language involved, it's all American English.)
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