Character entities or plain text?

[Adrian O'Sullivan MA FIL]

When entering META tag keywords (as in META NAME="keywords"
CONTENT="words,words,words"), are German umlauts shown as plain text
(Wörter,Wörter,Wörter) or as character entities
(Wörter,Wörter,Wörter)?

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Adrian O'Sullivan MA FIL
Correct and Clear Website Translations
(http://www.correctandclear.com)
Correct Clear English Website Editing
(http://www.clearword.ca/webedit)
Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia
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[Jukka K. Korpela]

When entering META tag keywords (as in META NAME="keywords"
CONTENT="words,words,words"), are German umlauts shown as plain text
(Wörter,Wörter,Wörter) or as character entities
(Wörter,Wörter,Wörter)?

It doesn't matter, as long as the document's character encoding is
announced correctly.

In particular it doesn't matter since most search engines ignore meta
keywords anyway, or treat them at most as equivalent to normal textual
content. (So it would be safer and cleverer to use the key words in the
actual text.)