Sometimes, when you’re adding text to a web page, especially in a foreign language line French, you may encounter a bunch of accented characters that will show up as garbage in your browser unless you convert them to HTML character entities.
For example, the word Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn would be converted to Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn for safe display in all browsers.
Here are some web based tools that can automate this process for you.
- http://web.forret.com/tools/html.asp?inputtext=I%F1t%EBrn%E2ti%F4n%E0liz%E6ti%F8n
- http://code.cside.com/3rdpage/us/entity/converter.html
The 2nd one is better because it can exclude HTML tags (brackets, etc).