Help with 'non-ASCII' characters

07-08-03 | me

[BobP]

To anyone in the group:

Hello, I need help with some 'non-ASCII' characters that I've seen appear lately on a few web pages. They are not being decoded by my Win95 machine with MS IE5.0 browser.

Here is the most pronounced example:

The following characters are show on my screen as

’

This is supposed to display an apostorphe (') ...I think....

Example from a web page....

Barnes told The Hill: "He has a good military record, he’s from a great area of the state -- the middle of the state -- and he's successfully been elected to Congress."

There are also undecoded characters for what I think should be a (—) and (...) as well....

Any help would be educational.

Thanks

[MrsEmmaPeel]

What does the page source say? You're looking at unicode characters which can be anything from Hebrew, Greek to Chinese, Japanese and everything in between. If your browser isn't set to display the characters, then you'll see exactly what you saw. But the kicker is its not an exact transation. It depends on the language of the web page and the settings of your browser. Page source might give you a clue. Then, the unicode consortium with their zillions of code pages would have the character for you.

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[MrsEmmaPeel]

Unicode Consortium is here

Bear in mind, that HTML unicode is decimal, but the offical unicode characters are in hex. So you'll have to do some translation. For example, the Unicode character (HTML) ợ is (hex) 1EE3. The Unicode consotium would have it as 1EE3, your page source would have it as ợ