Bill Jonas on Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:00:13 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] ASCII encoding question...


On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:37:43AM -0400, William Shank wrote:
> but i'd really like to know why it looks ok in the
> browser server from one machine but not hte other.

You didn't mention which browsers you're using.  Could it be a case of
MSIE 5 or 6 versus Netscape 4?  NS4 is known for displaying a question
mark when it doesn't understand the input character.  One example of
this would be the ?smart quotes? that don't look too ?smart? on a
non-Microsoft platform.

See also demoroniser.  http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/

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