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I'm seeing question marks

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�"


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To: Dumpster Baby
It's not that easy for me. I've got the night crew storming the patch panels trying to get it right.

Man, I have got to get a set up like you've got. Can that be ordered through Apple, or do I need to call Cisco?

41 posted on 04/04/2008 9:34:00 AM PDT by Bronzewound
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To: Dumpster Baby; martin_fierro; Tijeras_Slim

42 posted on 04/04/2008 9:36:58 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Dumpster Baby; John Robinson

Somewhere in the code, FR seems to be forcing “Unicode (UTF-8)” character encoding, but those apostrophes, smart-quotes, etc, are encoded with “Western (ISO-8859-1)” and the browser throws a placeholder for every character it can’t read.

If you force Western [Firefox: “View | Character Encoding | Western (ISO-8859-1)] the problem goes away, but for some reason, it is sometimes getting forced back to UTF.


43 posted on 04/04/2008 9:41:22 AM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Bronzewound
Man, I have got to get a set up like you've got. Can that be ordered through Apple, or do I need to call Cisco?

Too late. It's a Heathkit OU-812, now discontinued.

Here the crew is loading subroutines to display a "pixel".


44 posted on 04/04/2008 11:44:12 AM PDT by Dumpster Baby (“It’s not a lie if you believe it”)
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To: dhot
Why would you want to?

Only to get rid of the black diamond question marks.

45 posted on 04/04/2008 5:16:47 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Dumpster Baby; al baby
FReep Mail Al Baby. You need to update the Calibration settings on your “Beeber-Type-Device.”

Make sure you set it on “STUNE” and not “ZOT!” while it re-calibrates.

I hope this helps.

46 posted on 04/04/2008 5:20:11 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: callisto; Darksheare

Have fun!


47 posted on 04/04/2008 5:22:02 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Petronski

Since you’ve pinged John, I see posts time-stamped in PDT, when I’ve selected Central time.


48 posted on 04/04/2008 7:15:01 PM PDT by JoJo Gunn (Help control the RINO population. Have them spayed or neutered. ©)
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To: Dumpster Baby
Those are called fnord!'s.

Ignore fnord! them. There is fonrd! nothing fonrd! to fonrd! see fonrd! here.

49 posted on 04/04/2008 7:25:43 PM PDT by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
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