Is there a need to use HTML entities when using Unicode? -

i building website german client, text on website regularly contain characters like:

• ä
• ö
• ü
• ß

is necessary convert characters html entities while website uses utf-8 character encoding everywhere?

or maybe there's no relation between 2 areas?

when (if @ all) should convert html entities, then?

you should convert html entity or character references when:

a. stuck editor or processing component doesn't support unicode properly;

b. have manually-edited markup confusable characters. example, if have non-breaking-space important lay out correctly, might want write   or   it's obvious , doesn't replaced normal space when edits file.

other that, no, go raw versions.