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Apostrophy parses as "’"

Posted 09 May 2008 17:00:27
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09 May 2008 17:00:27 Joshua Rapp posted:
I have a little bit of a problem, all of my content and formatting on the page I am creating is right, except for all of my apostrophes. Take for example the word "Mother's" it looks fine in both my design and my code, but when I view the page on any browser it parses like so "’".

Can anyone please help me figure out what I am doing wrong.

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Replied 27 May 2008 07:16:11
27 May 2008 07:16:11 Scott Richardson replied:
it has to do with two things.

first.. there are actually TWO kinds of single speech marks, and TWO kinds of double speech marks.

The offending speech mark is known as the 'curly' speech mark. And is typically the one used in Microsoft Word. You should try to replace all of these with a standard 'plain text' inverted comma.
Same goes for double speech marks.

The second thing is your page's character set.. which is found in the header of the page:
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code> &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"&gt;</font id=code></pre id=code>

Make sure you're set to iso or UTF <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

Scott

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