The website I'm working on has words with special accents, something like the acute and grave accents in French, or the cedilla (sp?) in Spanish, or the umlaut in German (I think that's what the letters with the dots over them are called.)
Anyway... When I preview the website the letters that have these accents have been replaced by a small, black rectangle. So, my question is, how do I get these words to appear on the website with the accents intact. The absence of these accents would change the pronunciation of these words, so they are necessary.
It depends on the "codepage" you happen to be using, language settings of your browser and your operating system, and so on.
To be 100% sure you show the characters as they should, you should replace them with codes. å shows å, ö shows ö, and so on. this page shows an overview of all the names you can use.
