HTML & XML encode for special characters
When working with SharePoint List Instance, List Definition, you meet some special character that display wrong on the Web page. Example: ü --> ¼c ö --> ä …. With HTML you can use HTML codes to fix ö --> ö ü --> ü In the XML content, the HTML codes will make schema not correct. so you need to use XML codes to fix this: ö --> ö ü --> ü You can use this page for HTML code: http://www.thesauruslex.com/typo/eng/enghtml.htm XML code: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html#h-24.2