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When you create Web pages, international characters — such as ä (the letter a with an umlaut) and é (the letter e with an acute accent) and characters from languages such as Russian and Japanese — are preserved by default.

Web pages are stored in HTML (HTML: The standard markup language used for documents on the World Wide Web. HTML uses tags to indicate how Web browsers should display page elements such as text and graphics and how to respond to user actions.) in the text-encoding (encoding: The byte (or sequence of bytes) representing each character in an HTML or plain text file. Unicode encoding supports all characters in all languages and is readable in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later and Netscape Navigator 4.0 or later.) standard that matches your language version of Microsoft Windows. If the character isn't included in that text-encoding standard, it is stored as either a named character entity (character entity: A code that's used in HTML to describe symbols, international letters, and other special characters. Character entities are maintained by the International Standards Organization (ISO).) from the HTML standard or a numeric character reference representing the Unicode (Unicode: A character encoding standard developed by the Unicode Consortium. By using more than one byte to represent each character, Unicode enables almost all of the written languages in the world to be represented by using a single character set.) value of the character.

Symbols that you insert by using the Symbol command on the Insert menu are preserved when you use the correct symbol font. If you author Web pages in more than one language, first set up your system to handle multilingual text, and consider changing the encoding of your Web pages to match the language you want to use.