Re: Problems downloading programs

From: Robert Aldwinckle (robald_at_techemail.com)
Date: 02/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:18:53 -0500

"Cris" <Cris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F280E51C-BAFF-4B49-B950-230462E419D2@microsoft.com...
>
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> "Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:
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>> "Cris" <Cris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:CC0A4DDD-8291-4732-8788-A3BD5EB2F5A0@microsoft.com...
>> > "Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:
>> >
>> >> "Cris" <Cris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:63565EDF-0BBE-4774-B3A1-99C5A08BF172@microsoft.com...
>> >> > for example I cannot download firefox at this link
>> >> > http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox&os=win〈=it-IT
>>
>> Wow! Looks as if there is a bug in the web interface that you are using.
>> The ampersand and last parameter label (for lang=it-IT) appear to have
>> been converted into a weird UNICODE "character".
>>
>> FWIW the three characters I am seeing in its place (and their
>> equivalent helps in CharMap, Characterset Windows: Western) are:
>> â U+00E2 Latin Small Letter A With Circumflex
>> ΠU+0152 (0x8C) Latin Capital Ligature Oe
>> © U+00A9 Copyright Sign
>>
>> (We may be able to take the bitstring implied by those concatenated
>> hex values to figure out the real Unicode character might be
>> to get some better clue about why it is happening.)
>>
>> What do you see when you are looking at that link, one "character"
>> or three?
>
> I can see three characters
>
>>Also what shows in the Status bar when you give the link focus?
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> in the status bar I can see exactly the same link I'm focusing. In other
> words, also in the status bar I can see the "〈"

<LOL> Now I see 6 characters where you have probably quoted 3.
I wonder how much longer we can make this string become? <EG>

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>> More importantly, is that the link you were using or was it formatted correctly?
>> (It was after all just a repeat of the link that you had originally posted.)
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> If I use that link (with "〈" or the "box") I'm redirected to the
> mozilla.org site.

Ok. I see then. We aren't using links; we are using procedures
to get to appropriate sites. Cool.

> If I use the correct one the download window appears and depending on the
> mirror the download starts or not.
>
> Now I'm replying by means of IE6.0 browser, but all of my posts have been
> written with mozilla Firefox. Please can you verify what you can see in the
> above reported link?
>
> http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox&os=win&lang=it-IT

Yes. This one looks good.

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>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser&mid=9448ef1a-debb-4760-8666-a17f57f2a310
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>> Hmm... I just checked the web interface copy of *my* post
>> and the link in it looks Ok. At the same time I checked the copy
>> of the link in yours and as expected I saw a single character
>> (a box character, implying that whatever that bitstring represents
>> is not a character in the characterset that I have.)
>>
>> I think that the only thing that may concern you in all of this
>> is to watch for that problem if ever you are needing to use
>> links posted by someone using the web interface which contain
>> parameters called lang=. Bizarre!
>
> Ok, I will pay attention!

Nice to know that perhaps FireFox isn't perfect... <VBG>

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>>
>> Anyway, back to your problem... <g>

I am going to start another subthread without this Unicode
distraction in it.

Robert
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