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2 total messages Started by Adam Carheden Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:00

#234

Author: Adam Carheden
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:00

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I Netscape on Linux, many pages have text where "'" appear as "?".  I'm
not sure if it happens on Netscape for other platforms.  I'm not sure if
it happens with IE.  All the pages have a similar look, and I know at
least some of them were created with Front Page.  "'" appear okay on the
MS Front Page web site though.  Some were also served from IIS and are
asp pages.  I was thinking character encoding, but isn't an "'" part of
the very standard ASCII charset?  How could they screw that up?

As an example of this phenomenon, look at www.biz.colostate.edu.

-- 
Adam Carheden
carheden@holly.ColoState.EDU

Re: ? instead of '

#235

Author: eric dahlman
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:00

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Adam Carheden <carheden@holly.ColoState.EDU> writes:

> I Netscape on Linux, many pages have text where "'" appear as "?".  I'm
> not sure if it happens on Netscape for other platforms.  I'm not sure if
> it happens with IE.  All the pages have a similar look, and I know at
> least some of them were created with Front Page.  "'" appear okay on the
> MS Front Page web site though.  Some were also served from IIS and are
> asp pages.  I was thinking character encoding, but isn't an "'" part of
> the very standard ASCII charset?  How could they screw that up?

They did it the Microsoft way.  You are running into smart quotes
another wonderful incompatibility brought to you by your friends in
Redmond. I don't know off hand how to get around it.  I just figure it
is a sign of poor web design like no ALT tags and the such.

-Eric

> 
> As an example of this phenomenon, look at www.biz.colostate.edu.
> 
> -- 
> Adam Carheden
> carheden@holly.ColoState.EDU

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