RonCioffi
08-15-2006, 04:51 PM
On only one of my websites, I have a problem with special characters. It's a monthly magazine web site … www.insidetennis.com. This problem has been going on for many issues. I seem to have it figured out. But every month, it crops up again and I go mad trying to find a reliable solution.
Sometimes I have unwanted question marks or unwanted characters when seen in a broswer. Sometimes I can't type correctly into the type … whether it be in DW design or code mode.
The problem seems to stem for this: I strip the text out of Quark. This text has these special characters that the html coding doesn't like:
’
‘
”
“
—
…
I've searched and replaced the special characters out of the file. Usually that works, but not always.
The page I have up now: www.insidetennis.com/0906_first_serve.html shows question marks at points in the text where I have started new blocks of text.
I have experimented with the Page Properties/Title/Encoding. The following meta tags are supposed to clean this up. However, sometimes they work and sometimes they don't.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sometimes I have unwanted question marks or unwanted characters when seen in a broswer. Sometimes I can't type correctly into the type … whether it be in DW design or code mode.
The problem seems to stem for this: I strip the text out of Quark. This text has these special characters that the html coding doesn't like:
’
‘
”
“
—
…
I've searched and replaced the special characters out of the file. Usually that works, but not always.
The page I have up now: www.insidetennis.com/0906_first_serve.html shows question marks at points in the text where I have started new blocks of text.
I have experimented with the Page Properties/Title/Encoding. The following meta tags are supposed to clean this up. However, sometimes they work and sometimes they don't.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
Any help would be greatly appreciated.