Tabel for the German special characters, the html-encoding and the usually in emails and ASCII-texts used transcriptions

characterhtml-codetranscription
ääae
ÄÄAe
ööoe
ÖÖOe
üüue
ÜÜUe
ßßss
sz
Please keep in mind that there are many problems with encoding in the internet. Windows-machines, Apples and Unix-computers use different encodings. Therefore it is not sufficient to verify that your computer and your browser can show the characters in the correct way. Mankind uses much more than 256 characters but computers usually use the ASCII characters and some in the country where the user lives usual special characters. Windows-machines use lots of different charactersets depending on the settings made during instalation especially dependent on the chosen coutry-setting.

The table above shows the savest way to represent the German special characters in html-files and in emails.

To see what happens when a wrong characterset is used try changing the default characterset in your browser. In the Menue usually: Edit - Preferences - Font. Then reload a page. Afterwards reset your font to the correct one.