* Paul M Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031201 20:21]: > I've often seen webpages where certain characters (primarily things like > apostrophes, quotes and such) show as '?' under Linux. I believe this is > a problem with character sets in Windows versus Linux. I'm assuming that > if I include the proper "locale" in Linux, this problem will go away. > Does anyone know how to solve this, and what the character set is which > Windows uses (in American English)?
Most often this is because the author of that web page is sending you garbage. Windows uses "codepages", and the one most commonly used is 1252, sometimes written as "windows-1252" or "CP-1252". I'm pretty sure this "codepage" coincides with ASCII for lower-numbered characters, but not with ISO-8859-1 for other characters. So when you get a page whose Content-Type claims ISO-8859-1 with windows-1252 apostrophes in it, they render as the garbage that they are. Basically, the problem is on their side -- I'd call it a problem with the web site files themselves; the site maintainer should either fix the enconding of the files or properly inform their web server what encoding those files are so that it can send an accurate Content-Type. In the meantime, since I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for all of those sites to be fixed, Mozilla has a "Character Coding" menu item on its View menu which allows you to manually select a character coding to override the automatic selection (which usually just means whatever the webserver claims it is). Try selecting "Western (windows-1252)" and those apostrophes should render correctly. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin
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