re: HTML and "non-standard" characters
Hi Robert,
My keyboard is an AZERTY one with indeed lots of characters a different places.
I belong to a BBS (in french) where the webmaster urges us never to use accents for the reasons you mentioned. However, we've discovered, over the years (since 1997) that those accents became more and more readable (with exceptions once in a while).
Not using accents might still be the best solution, though.
Raoul