Title: HTML numbers
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# HTML numbers

 *  [SkyMaja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skymaja/)
 * (@skymaja)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-numbers/)
 * Hello, I have one more question. I see in source that some symbols are in form
   of html number.
 * For example, instead of single quotation mark there is &#8217. Double quotation
   mark and dash symbols are also converted to number. Is there some way to repair
   it?
 * Thank you.

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 *  [Free WP TP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freewptp/)
 * (@freewptp)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-numbers/#post-7314535)
 * Hi [@skymaja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skymaja/),
 * Thank you for your another question.
 * Yes these HTML Entity Numbers of HTML Entity as described on the below pages.
 * [http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp)
   
   [http://www.freeformatter.com/html-entities.html](http://www.freeformatter.com/html-entities.html)
 * Are you having any issue with them?
 * Best Regards,
    Movin
 *  Thread Starter [SkyMaja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skymaja/)
 * (@skymaja)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-numbers/#post-7314538)
 * Hi, the problem is, they shouldn’t be in source 🙂 I mean source of website, 
   ctrl+u in browser. It isn’t seo friendly because google bots read html source,
   not what visitors see.
 * But now I don’t think it’s a problem with theme, because when I tried to change
   it the problem still existed.
 *  [mrtom414](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtom414/)
 * (@mrtom414)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-numbers/#post-7314539)
 * Html has reserved characters like double and single quote marks. WordPress and
   php replace the reserved characters with the html code that represents the character.
 * Google knows what the characters are and doesn’t have a problem with them. They
   are quite common in html code.
 *  [Free WP TP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freewptp/)
 * (@freewptp)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-numbers/#post-7314574)
 * [@mrtom414](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtom414/)
 * I hope you are well today and thanks for helping out here in this forum.
 * Your help here is really appreciated.

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