How do I type unicode characters?

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Hello,

I hope this is the right place to be asking this question... I'm
relatively new to the world of Unicode and text encodings in general and
am having a little trouble working exactly how I should be collecting
information from web forms and how I should be entering this information
into my database.

I think there is one question that will shed some light on a lot of my
problems...

Which one of these looks like a proper UTF-8 character: é or é ?

Basically, if I enter the character 'é' (egrave) into my database, when
trying to display it on a webpage, it displays as a '?'. If I try to enter
it as 'é' It displays ok. So does this mean that the correct way to type
an 'é' is to actually type 'é'?

many thanks in advance.
Tom

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Tom Kirkpatrick
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