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Asked: 2026-05-21T19:51:33+00:00

I am using © for the copyright sign. What all do I need to

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I am using © for the copyright sign. What all do I need to replace on my web page with the ASCII character codes? I also have ‘,” on my page, do I need to substitute these also with the ASCII character codes?

Do I need to use the following when using ASCII character codes? When would I use it else:

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">

UPDATE:

I am using the YUI API and they suggest that I use the strict doc type:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

How would this change now and what all do I need to represent the copyright symbol?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can’t use &copy; if you’re writing XHTML and you want to be able to process it in a non-external-entity-including XML parser, or in XHTML5 where there is no DTD to define the copy entity.

    In this case, you might use &#169;, or, generally better, just paste the © symbol in directly and make sure you’re saving and serving the file as UTF-8.

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