Html character entities

Small problem, only annoying. I placed a button on a form that is displayed in a webbrowser. The text displayed on the button is in german language and does include “Umlaute” e.g. Ä, ö, …

I use a W3C validation service to check my web applications, and the validation service (validator.w3.org) complains about the Umlaut. So I change the Umlaut to the appropriate html character entity, e.g. Ä instead of Ä. But now the beginning & of the character entity will be translated to &, the resulting button text looks like this:

<input type=“button” value="&Auml;nderungen…

Seems that domino tries to convert the &. How can i prevent this?

Regards

Johannes

Subject: encode

What are you using to encode the string? manually replacing chars or using @Encode / Encode according to ISO standards?