When that gets sent in or displayed using ISO encoding, you get the results above. The solution? Subscribe to Confident Computing! I rarely get this in Emails. However, I come across this very often, while navigating the web.
These are just some additional reasons quote characters get messed up — especially on mass-produced interactive web pages. Good job! What should savvy PC folks be working towards? UTF-8 is a method of encoding each code point as a variable number of 8-bit bytes, at least one and possibly as many as three.
UCS-2 is actually a subset of Unicode, which encodes the first 64, code points there are more! ISO is a one-byte encoding that happens to be identical to UTF-8, for the first characters only. And vice versa of course. It may not help much. I have the problem with Thunderbird, which allows me to specify the character encoding, though it will Auto-Detect. When I received an email in Eudora with those odd characters in it, I copied it into MS word — the correct characters appeared.
Then I copied it back into Eudora and the weird characters were gone! This detailed information is only good for annoying people at cocktail parties and showing off for family at Thanksgiving. What else could it be? Or a smart version of that. Thanks Ragini. First, thank you, Leo. Now I need to address it, so the extended explanation gives me a direction. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Lazy people want a singular, simplistic answer to their singular local problem.
And for those who complained, the question did not ask how to fix the problem, it asked why the characters were appearing. This stops reformatting of a plain text email message!! Thanks Leo for this explanation. They switched over to a new hosting provider back in November , and their content about articles, newsletters, ezines, etc was displaying just fine — until last weekend. Someone inadvertantly deleted the domain and the files, directories, etc.
Hundreds and hundreds of places. So now what can I do to fix the problem?!? Scott Does a new article end up with the characters, or just the restored database? Since you can find the characters in the database, you could do a search and replace for them all. But if new documents are having the same error, you are going to have to go deeper.
And why is it doing so when I did not put it there? Even on the print preview the box is showing but when printed out the symbol here is printing out…? Using Eudora 7. I know there is a toggle command to turn on and off the foreign characters.
Right now I press? Do you know the command? Something like shift-control D…. Please help! TIA Phil. Did you ever stop to think most of us asking how to fix this problem are not computer software engineers? All your lengthy jargon does absolutely no good. Next time your car transmission goes out, contact me. Your first step comes right after turn the computer on.
UTF-8 means nothing to me and I have no idea how or where to change it. Or you could mention how you access email here and someone might be able to explain where to find it.
I have a problem where if I cut and paste from windows into and old program the program crashes completely. Asked 11 years ago. Active 2 years, 3 months ago. Viewed k times. On one of the pages, wherever there's an apostrophe ' or a dash - , the symbol gets replaced with a weird black diamond with a question mark in the center of it Here's what I mean It seems this is happening all over the site wherever these symbols appear.
Suggestions on how to fix it would also be greatly appreciated. Improve this question. Paul D. Waite Ortund Ortund 7, 17 17 gold badges 63 63 silver badges bronze badges. Which encoding did you write the website in? Which encoding does the browser see? The screenshot URL s. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. It's an encoding problem. Improve this answer. They're probably ascii Logan Young after you know which type of encoding your editor produces, you just have to set that encoding in the meta tag I posted above.
What editor do you use? Logan I downloaded your web site, but enca and file aren't able to recognize the encoding, that's somewhat strange. Again, which editor do you use? It should be possible to save from notepad as iso or utf Try it and replace the encoding in the meta tag. Did you write this content in Notepad, or was it pasted in from e. Show 1 more comment. Karlgoldstraw Karlgoldstraw 2 2 gold badges 11 11 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges.
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