Davémon said:
so just set charset=utf-8; raw accented characters (ó, é etc.)
Well, that would be adequate if you have the characters (all the
characters in the file) in UTF-8 encoding. Do you know this to be the case?
The software you use to create web pages probably uses the ISO-8859-1
(or windows-1252) encoding at least by default. It would be quite
incorrect to label it as UTF-8 if it contains just one character outside
the ASCII range.
and set the
<html lang="es">.
You can do that, and it's recommendable in principle, but it has no
effect whatsover on the character encoding issue.
why utf-8 and not iso-8859-1 ?
Beats me. ISO-8859-1 works fine for Spanish except for some punctuation
marks.
All browsers that you need to care about get ó, é etc. correctly when
they are ISO-8859-1 encoded and this encoding is declared in HTTP
headers and/or in a meta tag. The problem is whether you _authoring
software_ (including data transfer to a server) gets things right; it
most probably does, but if you are using a Mac, you may need to do some
checking.
