HTML Special Character Converter

The easiest way to set a charset in your HTML is by using the Content-Type META tag. But if for some reason you cannot define a character set in your HTML files, you can HTML-encode special characters (such as characters with accents or the €-character). Your character will be shown correctly in almost all cases (if your font supports the character). HTML-encoded characters always start with an ampersand (&) and end with a semicolon (;).

Copy your normal text below (including special characters). Insert sample text



Your HTML encoded text:

Programming Routines

PHP

Use htmlentities( string  [, quote style, charset ] ) to convert your characters to HTML enconded characters. Example: htmlentities('ë', ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8') This outputs ë (and the string is HTML encoded)
ENT_COMPAT will convert double-quotes and leave single-quotes alone.
You can also specify a charset to define which charset should be used in the conversion (the default is ISO-8859-1/Latin 1, because this page is UTF-8 encoded I have to specify the charset)
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