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Mar 09th, 2003, 10:51 AM #1Member
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Mar 09th, 2003, 01:33 PM #2Senior Member
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Check your encoding in IE.
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Mar 09th, 2003, 01:56 PM #3Unpaid WDF Intern
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You could also hold <ALT> and type 169 on the Num Lock pad, and that'll often work.
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Mar 10th, 2003, 09:27 PM #4Member
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well the problem is, I can see the symbol. ©
But when I type out the code & c o p y ; and save my webpage, the actual code within my webpage is changed from & c o p y ; to © . So the symbol appears within the HTML instead of the code.
I'm not sure why this is happening. lol. But whenever it does, then for some even stranger reason Internet Explorer will not show the symbol © when I attempt to view my webpage as normal on the web, it will instead show a ?, that is, an actual question mark. However, all copyright symbols I have seen on other pages always appear fine. Again, I don't understand it. So I figure if I use Javascript instead of & c o p y ; the javascript code won't be replaced like the HTML code is.
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Mar 10th, 2003, 09:37 PM #5
The problem is that you're using FrontPage, or some other WYSIWYG editor that is transposing the HTML as you go. Since FrontPage and other editors save the file as an ASCII SBCS (Single Byte Character System) format, special characters don't get recognized. However, when it sees the © text, it replaces it automatically in the source with the symbol (because that's the way the dumb things work).
My suggestion is that you either:- Start scripting your HTML instead of using WYSIWYGs,
- Try looking for the setting in the Options or Preferences to turn off the code swapping, or
- Try (in HTML mode) typing Alt + 0169 - which will enter the ASCII / SBCS version of the Copyright symbol, instead of the Unicode (Multi-Byte Character System) version which will not be recognized later.
If you try #3 and it transposes the character again, you should [insert random violent act here] whoever created the app.
Just my thoughts
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