Sun, 2004-02-08 18:48
Here is the first two paragraphs of my blog. Lets see if anyone here can spot my problem.
What Iââ¬â¢m about to tell you is 100% true.
A few years ago I worked for a man that was less than sanitary. It would be interesting to see if any of you have had similar experiences. I think itââ¬â¢s important to first describe this man. He stood about 5ââ¬â¢8ââ¬Â, weighed over 220lbs, male pattern baldness was in full effect, large gap between his front teeth and just plain gross. He is literally an amusement park caricature of a human being.
Why the heck are my apostrophies and quotations marks showing up this way? What can I do to fix the problem?
Sun, 2004-02-08 19:47
#1
Stupid apostrophys and weird text in my blog
Sorry, same message as other post... not a CSS-related question so moved here.
Does look like a character set thing - are you sure they're standard apostrophes, not special Word formatting type things? Word by default will convert ' into something that looks a bit nicer.
Sun, 2004-02-08 20:27
#2
Stupid apostrophys and weird text in my blog
Actually think this may be a CSS question 
lets see before it gets moved back.
bsbdeb - can you provide us with a link so we can see the problem. It may be something to do with encoding.
Regards
Day
Mon, 2004-02-09 01:17
#3
Stupid apostrophys and weird text in my blog
To me this is a classic example of why folks should be validating their pages as this kind of thing would be picked up straight away (presuming you had a valid doctype). The following URL may help as it shows all the characters available in the ISO latin 1 character set... http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/charset/
Mon, 2004-02-09 02:37
#4
Stupid apostrophys and weird text in my blog
Thanks for taking a look at this.
This is my site address: www.brianscott.blogspot.com If you need my code I can provide that as well if you like. Just let me know.
I think it should be noted that not only am I a newbe to this site but also in weblogging. Anything that I have learned of CSS is basically from taking a template and then modifying for my use.
I apologize for not posting questions in the appropriate spot or for asking what appears to be a bad question (non css related) as well.
Brian.
Mon, 2004-02-09 11:13
#5
Stupid apostrophys and weird text in my blog
It is an encoding problem - they are just fancy apostrophes. Let's see if they work here:
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Ah dammit, they do.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
I know this line is in your HTML, it might be worth putting it on one line rather than spreading it over too. Also add a valid DOCTYPE as the first thing in the HTML:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
and that might well cure the problem.