the question mark symbol instead of special characters - GoFuckYourself.com

nico-t · 08-31-2007, 08:11 AM

whats up with that? I want the special characters to be shown, like these: ? and ? (notice theyre not the normal style " and ') and they show up as a question mark symbol. How can i change that?

nico-t · 08-31-2007, 10:12 AM

wtf... is this a stupid question or a genious question?

ServerGenius · 08-31-2007, 10:17 AM

wrong keyboard language layout selected.....go to control panel, Regional and
language settings and change the keyboard layout to match your keyboard layout.

nico-t · 08-31-2007, 10:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ServerGenius

wrong keyboard language layout selected.....go to control panel, Regional and
language settings and change the keyboard layout to match your keyboard layout.

whoops i should have said that in my 1st post, it only happens on one website of mine, never had this prob with my other websites or for instance gfy so its something in the website code or something

nico-t · 08-31-2007, 01:20 PM

DesignWise · 08-31-2007, 01:43 PM

it happend to me once... the text i pasted with " ' " looks fine but shows as "?" on the browser, i erased and typed the " ' " manually... not sure why it happpens, but i fixed it with that method...

nico-t · 08-31-2007, 05:59 PM

here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark#Computing

Quote:

In many web browsers, "?" is used to show a character not found in the program's character set. This commonly occurs for apostrophes and quotation marks when they are written with software that uses its own proprietary non-standard code for these characters. Some fonts will instead use the Unicode Replacement Glyph (U+FFFD, �), which is commonly rendered as a white question mark in a black diamond.

Now this board uses verdana and my site too, and this board doesnt show ” and ’ as �, but my site does. How can i make the question mark go away so it shows the ” and ’ normally???

nico-t · 09-01-2007, 04:39 PM

mmm... am i the only one whos ever asked this?

nico-t · 09-01-2007, 08:49 PM

bumpidy FUCKING BUMP

GrouchyAdmin · 09-01-2007, 08:58 PM

Wrong font encoding or wrong doctype in HTML. With FireFox, try "View" -> "Character Encoding"

nico-t · 09-01-2007, 09:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrouchyAdmin

Wrong font encoding or wrong doctype in HTML. With FireFox, try "View" -> "Character Encoding"

holy shit, thank you so much. I did instead of UTF (universal shit) the western code and i see the chars now. Now im gonna put that shit in my website setup (they got the UTF-8 thing instead of the western)

08-31-2007, 08:11 AM	#1
nico-t emperor of my world Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: nethalands Posts: 29,903	the question mark symbol instead of special characters whats up with that? I want the special characters to be shown, like these: ? and ? (notice theyre not the normal style " and ') and they show up as a question mark symbol. How can i change that?

08-31-2007, 10:17 AM	#3
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08-31-2007, 01:43 PM	#6
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09-01-2007, 08:58 PM	#10
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08-31-2007, 10:12 AM	#2
nico-t emperor of my world Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: nethalands Posts: 29,903	wtf... is this a stupid question or a genious question?

08-31-2007, 01:20 PM	#5
nico-t emperor of my world Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: nethalands Posts: 29,903

09-01-2007, 04:39 PM	#8
nico-t emperor of my world Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: nethalands Posts: 29,903	mmm... am i the only one whos ever asked this?

09-01-2007, 08:49 PM	#9
nico-t emperor of my world Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: nethalands Posts: 29,903	bumpidy FUCKING BUMP