characters in html pages do not display correctly

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Wed Jun 30 01:55:26 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 17:00, Dave Cross wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 04:37:29PM -0500, olga at urbantimes.net wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've noticed that some characters in the htm pages (created in
> > Dreamweaver) do not display correctly. For example, in Dreamweaver on a
> > workstation, I have quotation marks, but when the page is ftped to the
> > server running Apache 2, they become question marks. Some European
> > characters get garbled as well.
> > 
> > Can someone tell me please what could be the reason for that.
> 
> Almost certainly those characters are outside of the standard ASCII
> range and your HTML doesn't define which character set they are taken
> from.
> 
> Try defining the character set in your HTML page. ISO-8859-1 would be
> a good first guess.
> 
> Dave...
> 

Are you saying that you believe the quotation mark is outside the ascii
range?

Per my ascii table it is dec 34, oct 42, hex 22
> -- 
>   New .sigs
>   Running in please parse
> 





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