I noticed this a while ago but either I'm noticing it more or it's becoming more common - on some web pages, apostrophes are replaced by question marks in text for example, it happens in both XP and 7 and in both IE and FF. I've tried messing with character encoding on FF but it doesn't seem to fix it. I notice it frequently in the news sidebar in these forums, so it is some setting I need to change or just a case of whoever wrote the page copy/pasting from Word or something?
Thanks
It's probably text entered as UTF8 and then stored in ISO format, or encoded as UTF8 twice.
Are there any current examples that you can see?
watercooled (08-10-2010)
There's a few "there?s" in the second paragraph of this page: http://www.trustedreviews.com/printe...ser-Printer/p1
I see it too in Opera, and unfortunately now you have pointed it out, I will not be able to not notice it
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Originally Posted by Winston Churchill
watercooled (08-10-2010)
Yeah, that's nothing to do with your encoding, that's how their system has handled the initial input. If things are pasted from word they often don't contain standard apostrophes and quotes - lots of sites have problems storing these, and this site looks like one of them. In the storage process it has been converted to a ?
watercooled (08-10-2010)
Yeah that sounds about right. Sorry about that Golden Dragoon
Maybe if you see a site like that you could contact the webmaster and inform them of the problem? Hopefully whoever writes the Hexus articles will notice this thread and I'll attempt to contact trusted reviews if I come across other articles with the problem. Every little helps!
watercooled (08-10-2010)
Ah well. I meant to mention it myself a while ago, I just never got around to it.
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