I might be missing something fundamental here...
Years ago, before using SD, I would always run my code through a "Tidy" routine to convert special characters to html conform format. I somehow took for granted that SD would do that automatically when exporting the site. Being in Spain, I write a lot of special characters and only recently I realised that the html code created by SD does not do anything to convert those characters.
Using the html element is really not practical in my case, so the best bat is to cleanup the code manually with html editor after exporting it. Has it been suggested to Coffecup to add a similar option to SD as they have in the html editor?
Regards

Everything from Coffeecup, for the last 10 years or so, is using the 'utf-8' character set. That means, that you should be able to write the different letters 'as they come. As for myself, I'm using Norwegian (we have our 'ÆØÅ' funnies). I'm also using German, with ÄÖÜ and the sharp S. No problem with the French special characters either, not even with Turkish, but I have no experience with Spanish. But I would think that all the European Latin-based alphabets can be used 'as is'.

What I'm saying is, for example that a German ö or a Norwegian ø will look exactly the same 'under the hood' (aka in the code), they don't have to be changed to ö or ø
So my guess is, that a code cleaner hasn't been found necessary.

Thanks for the clarification! Si, in that case, the warnings from the html validators can be safely ignored?

That depends on what kind of warnings you get. What are they warning you about?

Just a thought: in the Page Manager, third item down in general settings, it would be interesting to know
a. what language would be set by the Detect button, and
b. whether the use of a different language setting (perhaps testing all the likey ones) would help.

Frank