HTML heading and html special characters

Question

I'm trying to edit a index.html file but in my heading my html special character code is not showing on the screen.

Example:

<h5>Souscrire &#224; infolettre</h5>

This should display as "Souscrire à infolettre" but the à isn't showing.

Answer 1

As a french user, you should not do that. Simply encode all your files in UTF-8 and you will be able to use whatever accent you want : ç,é,è,à,ô...

But you will need to add a little header to the html file.

<meta charset="utf-8">

Answer 2

there's nothing wrong with your code, as you can see in this jsfiddle.

the problem has to be something else, but to find that out, we'll nee a bit more information:

• which browsers have you tested?
• do other html-entities work?
• have you tried creating a new file only containing that one line?