Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
If my site is using UTF-8, is there any advantage/disadvantage to still escaping HTML characters? e.g. Using "&” instead of just “&“? What’s the best practice?
You still need to escape characters that have a special meaning in HTML, like
<,>,&, to avoid parser ambiguities/invalid syntax. That has nothing to do with the encoding. You don’t need to escape every non-ASCII character though, like “ö” toö, since you can natively represent them in the UTF-8 encoding.