Weird characters

  • okephoto

    (@okephoto)


    18 years, 5 months ago

    A clients blog has been working fine but all of a sudden we are getting formatting characters in the text like: any ideas?

    I’ve worked for a long time as a writer and editor for a wide range of corporate and government clients. Most of this work is made to order (“You want onions with that annual report?”; “That news release: over easy or scrambled?”). But as often as I can

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  • kmessinger

    (@kmessinger)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    Site look ok in IE7 and FF2 as far as I can tell. You do have validation errors which mean html mistakes which can cause problems. See validator.w3.org.

    How are you doing your ” and ‘? Using & and #8220;?

    Thread Starter okephoto

    (@okephoto)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    I should mention the site in question:

    http://www.georginamontgomery.com

    kmessinger

    (@kmessinger)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    Well, the good news is that site has a lot less validation errors than your site :^)

    I have seen this with code or text being translated from Mac to Windows and back or about any other combination of back and forth. Use Unicode entity like & and #8220; and & and #8221; for your quotes. Leave out the “and” – couldn’t get it to display the code.

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