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nico-t

08-31-2007 08:11 AM

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?

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 (Post 13014876)

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

:helpme :helpme

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 (Post 13021468)

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)

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