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You can see the above quote in 'The Editor's Corner' section. Now the problem is, there appears to be a question mark after the word 'Loss' and this seems to be an encoding problem.
If I change the encoding in the browser to Western European it is fine but when I try to do it from webpage like
Looking at it I cannot see what is wrong. Case doesn't seem to be important. One thing which is confusing is the fact that the content type does not seem to be recognised, not just in IE but also in Firefox. Look at the content type of this page and it is also
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> which works.
What is the "bad" character being inserted (It's also occuring if you follow the link) ?. It seems to be coming from wherever you get the information. What is your "editor" saving as (mine defaults to utf-8 at the moment which can cause problems if I',m not using utf-8 ) ?
Sorry I can't direct you you to the proper answer.
Last edited by CoderGoblin on Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:00 am, edited 1 time in total.
so are you saying utf-8 encoding misinterprets certain character? what encoding do you suggest, I prefer western-european but the Content-Type meta tag does not seem to work.