Posted on 04/03/2008 9:28:16 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby
I'm seeing a lot of question marks inside a black box, when apostrophes and quotation marks are in some of the text. Is this something with my Firefox browser or is it FR?
"Unruly inmates get �the chair�"
I’ve been seeing them too...for several days now. I’m using a Mac with Safari...I thought it was only me.
? What? you? Mean??????????????????????????????????
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.
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.
Are you logged in?
Hello test hello test hello test
Yeah, I think so.
We’?>re D@@m&D
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.
Got ’em too in Safari Mac three-one.
Same here...Mac and Safari. Question marks show up periodically. It started after the last server crash.
I see dead punctuation.
I see them when I use my Netscape browser, but not when I use Internet Explorer. A Microsoft plot?
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.
Oh, forgot to tell you how to get there:
Tools —> Options —> Content —> Advanced —> Character Encoding.
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).
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.
Probably. Just about everything else is Mozilla based, and we're being discriminated against.
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