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RE: [PLUG] ASCII encoding question...
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actually, this was first noticed on windows machines running ie5.5+. testing
it with ie5.5, ns4+ (win & linux) and koqy on the staging machines showed
correct characters. same browsers on the hosting machine showed ? on all
platforms. weird, huh?
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Jonas
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Sent: 10/17/01 10:49 AM
Subject: 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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