Suggested DOC type to avoid using unicode characters

[modiophile]

I work in with alot of marketers in a tech company, they hand me swathes of copy, much of it containing special characters beyond apostrophes. So when I’m building a landing page using the HTML5 “” I have to go in and scan the page for special characters, look up the unicode equivalent, update, re-load… and its just a waste of time when I’m pressed for time.

What would be the next best DOC type that I could use to avoid having to do this?

[Senff]

Don’t change the doctype — make sure you get the right charset setting. Usually, having this in the HEAD is enough:

[karlpcrowley]

as @traq said, you can you force UTF-8 with .htaccess using this

AddDefaultCharset utf-8

AddCharset utf-8 .css .js .xml .json .rss .atom

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