Author Topic: What's Wrong With My Browser? (Read 381 times)

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

gofaster · « **Reply #1 on:** February 24, 2006, 01:57:51 PM »

I saw it in another post as well.

Testing

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Maverick · « **Reply #2 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?

testing ' end test.

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 24, 2006, 02:20:38 PM »

test ` ´

xrtoronto · « **Reply #4 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

eagl · « **Reply #5 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.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #6 on:** February 24, 2006, 05:04:18 PM »

PIBCAK.

Ghosth · « **Reply #7 on:** February 24, 2006, 05:07:15 PM »

Happens here also midnight.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #8 on:** February 24, 2006, 05:09:34 PM »

pilot erroâ€™r

xrtoronto · « **Reply #9 on:** February 24, 2006, 05:13:41 PM »

itâ€™s not happening on my machine

Saintaw · « **Reply #10 on:** February 24, 2006, 05:15:33 PM »

eagl is correct.

xrtoronto · « **Reply #11 on:** February 24, 2006, 05:24:07 PM »

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.

OOZ662 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 24, 2006, 05:24:57 PM »

Quote

Originally posted by Ripsnort
PIBCAK.

PEBKAC, buddy. I have proof.

Link

weaselsan · « **Reply #13 on:** February 24, 2006, 06:32:17 PM »

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Sandman · « **Reply #14 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.