Odd characters coming up in Alt Text...

[CrimsonLettersStudio]

There are odd characters coming up in alt text when I enter an apostrophe. 

I enter my text.  When I save the text and go back, the apostrophe is gone and it is replaced by #39; 

We want to make sure that in the shop that people are seeing the apostrophe and not the #39;

Do we have a way of viewing the alt text ourselves once enter and save it?

[ForeverWindingWool]

@CrimsonLettersStudio Only letters are allowed in certain fields.  Try no apostrophe.

[DOKOcreations · Accepted solution]

The apostrophe is a special character, so it is encoded as #39, and may or may not display correctly to the end user. You often see this in the titles of forum posts here when people use quotes in the title.

I would stay away from special characters in alt text. Here is more info:

The alt attribute will accept any text string, but there are certain best practices that will help.

• No special characters. This includes UTF-8 characters such as unencoded curly quotes, as well as HTML Character Entities.
• No HTML.
• No more than 125 characters.
• Just identify the picture. No need to refer to it (“This is a picture of…”).

Read more: https://html.com/attributes/img-alt/#ixzz8hZATi15h

[DragoninKnots]

Keep in mind that alt text is also used by blind people who use screen readers, so they should be easy to understand when read outloud.