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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Midnight on February 24, 2006, 01:42:23 PM

Title: What's Wrong With My Browser?
Post by: Midnight on February 24, 2006, 01:42:23 PM: For some reason, any time there is an apostrophy (') used in a post, my browser displays it as the character string

â€™

Any ideas? I have the latest updates from MS, and I can't seem to find any setttings that would prevent the apostrophy from displaying
Title: What's Wrong With My Browser?
Post by: gofaster on February 24, 2006, 01:57:51 PM: I saw it in another post as well.

Testing

'
Title: What's Wrong With My Browser?
Post by: Maverick on February 24, 2006, 02:19:26 PM: I have seen it in some posts but not all. I think it's a formatting error from cut and paste from another source. Perhaps a cross problem between HTML and plain text?:confused:

testing ' end test.
Title: What's Wrong With My Browser?
Post by: Mickey1992 on February 24, 2006, 02:20:38 PM: test ` ´
Title: What's Wrong With My Browser?
Post by: xrtoronto on February 24, 2006, 04:40:45 PM: I think it is done via 'text-mapping' ... an automated way of typing...whenever the person types in " ' " it results in the string he programmed
Title: What's Wrong With My Browser?
Post by: eagl on February 24, 2006, 04:44:38 PM: Try going to browser view, encoding, and select unicode-8. The problem is those people are posting using another text formatting code and although it looks fine on their browser, it doesn't work with standard MSIE settings for automatic encoding selection.
Title: What's Wrong With My Browser?
Post by: Ripsnort on February 24, 2006, 05:04:18 PM: PIBCAK.
Title: What's Wrong With My Browser?
Post by: Ghosth on February 24, 2006, 05:07:15 PM: Happens here also midnight.
Title: What's Wrong With My Browser?
Post by: Holden McGroin on February 24, 2006, 05:09:34 PM: pilot erroâ€™r
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Post by: xrtoronto on February 24, 2006, 05:13:41 PM: itâ€™s not happening on my machine
Title: What's Wrong With My Browser?
Post by: Saintaw on February 24, 2006, 05:15:33 PM: eagl is correct.
Title: What's Wrong With My Browser?
Post by: xrtoronto on February 24, 2006, 05:24:07 PM: (http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6130/cmap0ev.gif)

I still think he manually used the character map to create this to make his text stylish is all.

I've seen this done elsewhere.
Title: What's Wrong With My Browser?
Post by: OOZ662 on February 24, 2006, 05:24:57 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Ripsnort
PIBCAK.

PEBKAC, buddy. I have proof.

Link (http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/6692/)
Title: What's Wrong With My Browser?
Post by: weaselsan on February 24, 2006, 06:32:17 PM: Deleted.

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Title: What's Wrong With My Browser?
Post by: Sandman on February 24, 2006, 06:32:30 PM: Quote
Originally posted by eagl
Try going to browser view, encoding, and select unicode-8. The problem is those people are posting using another text formatting code and although it looks fine on their browser, it doesn't work with standard MSIE settings for automatic encoding selection.

That was it. Thanx eagl.
Title: What's Wrong With My Browser?
Post by: RedDg on February 24, 2006, 06:54:08 PM: There's a nut loose on the keyboard.
Title: What's Wrong With My Browser?
Post by: Ghosth on February 25, 2006, 06:49:21 AM: Totally Awesome Eagl ty sir.
Title: What's Wrong With My Browser?
Post by: Maverick on February 25, 2006, 09:57:49 AM: Quote
Originally posted by RedDg
There's a nut loose on the keyboard.

I was thinking more rather a few screws loose, but either way I believe you got it! :aok :p