[Web4lib] RSS and diacritics

[Jonathan Gorman]

>One other question:  which numeric reference is preferable?  For 
>example, both É and É (xC9 and 201) produce a Latin capital 
>E acute.  Are there good reasons to use one over the other?  (And is 
>either more likely than the other to be correctly rendered by 
>browsers in non-RSS situations?)

That, I must say, is for either a linguist or a character set expert to answer ;).  As a general rule, I try to avoid combining diacritics, but that's just me.

Good luck.

Jon Gorman