{"id":166,"date":"2011-05-09T10:52:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T08:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2011-05-09T10:52:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T08:52:06","slug":"html-escape-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/05\/html-escape-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"HTML escape characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not really long or comprehensive post &#8211; just a link to something that is a good reference (for myself or others when I&#8217;m too lazy to do a Google\/Bing search hehe)<\/p>\n<p>Lots of people including developers forget that not all characters in an HTML document will be displayed the same way &#8211; in different &#8216;locales&#8217;, regions etc. This is because the standard\/default character sets most people use is still plain ASCII (ya thanks for the yanks hehe) The correct way is to &#8216;escape&#8217; the characters properly. <a title=\"Escaping characters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theukwebdesigncompany.com\/articles\/entity-escape-characters.php\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> is a list of such characters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not really long or comprehensive post &#8211; just a link to something that is a good reference (for myself or others when I&#8217;m too lazy to do a Google\/Bing search hehe) Lots of people including developers forget that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/2011\/05\/html-escape-characters\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-reference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hen.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}