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Thread ID: 135082 2013-09-23 04:42:00 Can any of you smarties help with strange font symbols? braindead (1685) Press F1
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1354100 2013-09-23 04:42:00 I'm getting this when viewing a webpage on the web: "Don�t tell them". On my screen the apostrophe in the word "don't" is a tiny black triangle. I'm using Firefox latest. I've been all over looking for a solution that will render the symbol as text - I'm caught in the language options in Firefox, and not sure what they should be. Any help much appreciated. braindead (1685)
1354101 2013-09-23 04:58:00 Seems like an encoding issue to me - looks like it was originally UTF-8 but is being rendered as ASCII. Unfortunately I don't think that's something you can fix, it's up to the web developer to fix that. pcuser42 (130)
1354102 2013-09-23 05:06:00 Thanks PCUser42. I am the web developer so fire away :) braindead (1685)
1354103 2013-09-23 05:25:00 EDIT: Note to self, read things properly...Your meta tag with the encoding should have a value of utf-8 - I'll go into more detail when I get home :) pcuser42 (130)
1354104 2013-09-23 05:40:00 Very cool. Good on you for tracking it. braindead (1685)
1354105 2013-09-23 06:01:00 Oops - forgot the URL
www.estherkamkar.com
braindead (1685)
1354106 2013-09-23 06:23:00 Hmm, seems fine to me... pcuser42 (130)
1354107 2013-09-23 06:36:00 Thanks. I think I missed out some info that may help: I only see the text anomalies in the text in the left side bar, wherever there's an apostrophe or something. When you refresh the page, different sidebar content comes up. Some pages have the anomaly, some don't, just to make it tricky. braindead (1685)
1354108 2013-09-23 06:46:00 Aah I've got it now :p

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Copying the character into Notepad++ then encoding as ANSI gave � - googling this tells me the original character was the Unicode Replacement Character - going into that JavaScript file and replacing them with an apostrophe should do the trick. :)
pcuser42 (130)
1354109 2013-09-23 06:50:00 Thanks hugely. I think I should be good to go now. braindead (1685)
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