Display Umlaut in meta tag

[Steven]

Hi,

I'm attempting to display an umlaut in a meta tag like:

<META name="content" Content="hällo">

But all I get when the page is displayed in the browser is:

<META name="content" Content="h?llo">

Is there somekind of escape character I can use to get the umlaut to appear
correctly? I tried using &auml; ,for example, but this does not work.

Thanks in advance,
Steve.


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[Daniel R. Tobias]

I'm attempting to display an umlaut in a meta tag like:

<META name="content" Content="hällo">

But all I get when the page is displayed in the browser is:

<META name="content" Content="h?llo">

What browser? META tags aren't usually displayed by browsers (they're
meta-information, not part of the regular page content), except in
special contexts like "View Source" or "View Page Info", etc.

Is there somekind of escape character I can use to get the umlaut to appear
correctly? I tried using &auml; ,for example, but this does not work.

What "charset" parameter is your server sending with the page, to
indicate what character encoding is in use? The raw 8-bit character
won't necessarily display correctly if the charset parameter is missing
or incorrect. The entity reference (&auml or a numeric &#___;
reference ought to work at any rate, but some browsers have bugs. Is
this in Netscape 4 or some other such archaic browser?