Re: My symbols turn to question marks

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From: Ronx (ronx917_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/23/04 

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:23:06 +0100

The characters with ASCII codes between 32 (space) and 126(~) will display
correctly under UTF-8, and almost every other character set.
I can only assume that the spaces that display as ? are not true spaces.
Word has a non-breaking space (CTRL+SHIFT+Spacebar) which may be causing
this.
What does the HTML code for the character look like? 

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Ron Symonds   (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
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"Bjorn" <Bjorn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:A4CFA0B0-417B-4036-B800-E5C6621A8A4F@microsoft.com...
>I have a similar problem. When creating a web page with MS word or Excel, 
>any
> space turns to ?. In Internet Explorer, if I change Encoding from UTF-8 to
> Western European, everything is fine. But next time the page is open, the
> browser again insists on UTF-8 encoding. Even when the page is created to 
> "
> force" Western European encoding.
> This is also a new problem with the newest releases only.
>
> "Ronx" wrote:
>
>> Your symbols need to be inserted as entities in the form & #159; 
>> (without
>> the space between & and #)  where the number is the ASCII code for the
>> character.
>>
>> It is possible that your server is delivering the page with UTF-8 
>> character
>> set, over-riding any character set you have defined in the page.  UTF-8 
>> will
>> display symbols inserted into the HTML with their ASCII codes  as ? marks 
>> or
>> boxes, whereas entities will always display correctly.
>>
>> A list of entities can be found at
>> http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entitiesref.asp
>>
>> -- 
>> Ron
>>
>> Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
>>
>>
>> "news" <news@zipspots.com> wrote in message
>> news:yfe7d.28847$tT2.1818570@news20.bellglobal.com...
>> > My apostrophes, copyright symbols and some Latin accents become 
>> > question
>> > marks or other oddball symbols. I have tried different font's. I look 
>> > at
>> > them in FP2003 Preview...they are OK...but when I (and others) see them 
>> > on
>> > the web, what was SUPPOSED to be an apostrophe or copyright symbol is a
>> > question mark. On one site I use the city Bogota a lot. The "a" has an
>> > accent over it. It should be Bogotá but it end up being Bogot (square)
>> >
>> > Alex
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>

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