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Posted on 04/03/2008 9:28:16 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby

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1 posted on 04/03/2008 9:28:16 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby
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To: Dumpster Baby

I’ve been seeing them too...for several days now. I’m using a Mac with Safari...I thought it was only me.


2 posted on 04/03/2008 9:30:59 PM PDT by woofer2425 (You will all be using Macs within 10 years)
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To: Dumpster Baby

? What? you? Mean??????????????????????????????????


3 posted on 04/03/2008 9:31:27 PM PDT by Mark (Don't argue with my posts. I typed while under sniper fire..)
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To: Dumpster Baby

Yep, know what you mean.
Also some sentences are just gobble gook symbols.
Some reason about half the time I am getting server not responding, when trying to refresh the page.
Its been going on about three days.


4 posted on 04/03/2008 9:32:56 PM PDT by svcw (I reject your reality and substitute my own.)
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To: Dumpster Baby

I’m also a FF user, and have been seeing it too.

Before we catch any hell from the 3 dedicated IE users out there, I’d still rather see the occasional graphical anomaly on FR than to fear being loaded up with malware with every click of the mouse on the internet.


5 posted on 04/03/2008 9:33:11 PM PDT by KoRn (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: Dumpster Baby

Are you logged in?


6 posted on 04/03/2008 9:33:21 PM PDT by Uriah_lost (This space reserved for a decent candidate,,,lemme know when we get one.)
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To: Uriah_lost
Are you logged in?

Hello test hello test hello test

Yeah, I think so.

7 posted on 04/03/2008 9:35:45 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby (“It’s not a lie if you believe it”)
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To: Dumpster Baby; Mark; svcw; woofer2425

We’?>re D@@m&D


8 posted on 04/03/2008 9:35:51 PM PDT by shibumi (".....panta en pasin....." - Origen)
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To: Dumpster Baby; John Robinson

I use Firefox and I’ve been getting these interesting little symbols, too.

In the great scheme of things, not earth-shattering.

But certainly worth mentioning as the bugs get worked out of the changes that are going on.


9 posted on 04/03/2008 9:36:35 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good president." - John McCain)
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To: woofer2425

Got ’em too in Safari Mac three-one.


10 posted on 04/03/2008 9:39:19 PM PDT by dighton
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To: woofer2425

Same here...Mac and Safari. Question marks show up periodically. It started after the last server crash.


11 posted on 04/03/2008 9:40:54 PM PDT by mass55th
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To: Dumpster Baby
"I'm seeing question marks"



I see dead people.
12 posted on 04/03/2008 9:41:30 PM PDT by shibumi (".....panta en pasin....." - Origen)
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To: shibumi
I see dead people.

I see dead punctuation.

13 posted on 04/03/2008 9:42:58 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby (“It’s not a lie if you believe it”)
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I see them when I use my Netscape browser, but not when I use Internet Explorer. A Microsoft plot?


14 posted on 04/03/2008 9:50:33 PM PDT by KittyKares (.)
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It’s a character encoding problem.

My Firefox was on the default character encoding setting of “Western (ISO 8859-1)”.

I changed it to “Unicode UTF-16 (Big Endian)” and it fixed the quotes around that “The Chair” headline.

Don’t ask me what the heck “Big Endian” is because I don’t know, or what effect setting it to Unicode might have on other things, ‘cause I don’t know that either. So far it seems to be OK though.


15 posted on 04/03/2008 9:52:51 PM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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Oh, forgot to tell you how to get there:

Tools —> Options —> Content —> Advanced —> Character Encoding.


16 posted on 04/03/2008 9:53:53 PM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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Hmm, just Googling around...
Big Endian and Little Endian have to do with byte sequencing. I have no clue what that means as far as what the difference would be between picking Little Endian character encoding vs. Big Endian or any other Unicode or Western encoding scheme for that matter.

I figure that you at least want to stick with either Western or Unicode though, and not something like Vietnamese encoding (obviously).


17 posted on 04/03/2008 10:00:29 PM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: RepublitarianRoger2
The endian thing refers to the binary value of the bits in a byte, depending on which direction you read the values from.

A "little endian" byte used in Intel processors has the following bit values:

1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128

A "big endian" byte used in Motorola/Texas Instruments processors has the following bit values:

128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1

Completely useless information except for programmers and hardware folks.

I tried various UTF encodings in this Firefox 2.0.0.8 running on a Linux box, no change at all. Sigh.

18 posted on 04/03/2008 10:09:02 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby (“It’s not a lie if you believe it”)
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To: KittyKares
A Microsoft plot?

Probably. Just about everything else is Mozilla based, and we're being discriminated against.

Free the Mozilla Seven!

19 posted on 04/03/2008 10:13:45 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby (“It’s not a lie if you believe it”)
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To: Dumpster Baby
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20 posted on 04/03/2008 10:18:29 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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