Replace Characters with Entities Feature

When writing HTML pages, non-standard characters should be defined using either named or numerical entities, and not directly using the underlying encoding.

As opposed to the feature Fix syntax errors for XHTML compliance, this feature can be applied on any text selection.

This feature converts non-standard characters such as á, ñ or @ to named or numerical HTML entities. You can select which format is used in the Web Optimizer Transformation Options window.

The Solution

Sometimes, when a web page is being edited, international characters could be entered directly by the user.  When this happens, the user can select any document fragment and execute the Replace Characters with Entities feature to correct the international characters and express them in the appropriate format.  The following example shows the execution of this feature:

The following table presents the results obtained: